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This article maps an overlooked cultural history of Italy by exploring the literary notion of ‘trans geographies’ – a subgenre at the crossroads of autobiography, memoir, and travel narrative – through the memorialist work of sociologist and trans activist Porpora Marcasciano. Her narratives of people and place have repositioned trans identities within public spaces, while illustrating a larger phenomenon that remains underexplored within Italian Studies, namely, how places have shaped trans identities and how trans identities have, in turn, (re)shaped places. This article situates Marcasciano’s stories of gender self-determination in relation to: (1) interdisciplinary approaches to trans geographies; and (2) the writings of two very different Italian LGBT+ icons, Romina Cecconi and Mario Mieli. As a bard of the trans movement, Marcasciano has narrated concealed trans/cultural landscapes across the Italian peninsula, including Naples and the centuries-old culture of the  femminielli ; Rome’s  dolce vita  during the 1970s and 1980s; and the achievements of the trans movement in Bologna during the 1980s and the 1990s. This remapping ultimately unveils subaltern spaces that have remained at the margins of Italian collective memory as well as spaces where trans people have successfully explored new modes of inhabiting and sharing places, beyond taken-for-granted notions of normativity and transgression. The goal of this article is to outline how Marcasciano’s trans geographies have generated creative and critical sites while fostering more inclusive ways of narrating and sharing cultural history.

Italian trans geographies: retracing trans/cultural narratives of people and places