AFFIDAMENTO/ENTRUSTMENT WRITING SESSION
Tuesday, 16 July 2019, 6 PM
Dufferin Grove Park
875 Dufferin Park Ave, Toronto, ON M6H 4B2
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Returning to one of our earliest sessions on storytelling and writing, EMILIA-AMALIA invites participants to join us for a writing-focused session on disparity, difference and the practice of entrustment. Writing generated by this session will be collected for publication in our final chapbook, due out this fall.

Affidamento, or entrustment, is one of the most important, and difficult, practices enacted by the Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective, founded in 1975. Rejecting a narrative of equality and sisterhood, the Milan group sees difference, or disparity, as one of the most generative qualities of the personal and political relationships between women. Looking to historical examples of relationships of affidamento, and discussing how entrustment operates in our own lives, this session explores how practices of writing and narration give form to these exchanges and open up new spaces for feminist politics in the everyday.

Background Reading: Adriana Cavarero’s essay “On the Outskirts of Milan” (2000) and Teresa de Lauretis’s introduction to Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice (1990).