How do linguistic constructions of race, immigration, and coloniality intersect to produce restrictive categories of citizens of color in contemporary Italy? What happens when multiple colonial regimes interfere as diasporic communities negotiate multiple conceptualizations of race while asserting national belonging?

Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of The Lost Daughter breaks new ground by narrating a global female imaginary of women and mothers at breaking point (Ferrante’s ‘smarginatura’, or dissolving margins) that remains underexplored and often silenced in cultural production. 

There have been two songs constantly on the radio at the beach in Italy this summer. The first, Bruno Mars’ “The Lazy Song” (“Today I don’t feel like doing anything”), is so annoying that it makes you want to do something, anything, as long as it is violent.