Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism
Who are we

Cesare Di Feliciantonio
Cesare Di Feliciantonio (he/him) is Researcher (tenure) in Economic and Political Geography at Sapienza University of Rome, specializing in geographies of sexualities, HIV, and housing and urban geographies. He has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Antipode, Geoforum, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. He is one of the editors of Social & Cultural Geography. He is a co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Sexualities and Space and De Gruyter Handbook of Social Geographies.

Magdalena Moreno
Magdalena Moreno (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at UNTREF (Argentina) in Feminist Geography and sexual education. Her first book “Geography and Comprehensive Sexual Education. Contributions to the teaching of contemporary spaces” has 27,000 copies printed. She created the “Interactive and collaborative world Map of Geographies of sexualities" with Cambalache Cooperativa Geográfica. She is part of the Steering Committee Member of YES! (Young and Early Career Scholars), an initiative of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography.
More information: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3631-1850

Gabriella Palermo
Gabriella Palermo (she/her) is a Researcher in Geography at the University of Palermo. Herwork focuses on Critical Ocean Geographies and Gender and Feminist Studies. Her PhD thesis Facts and Fabulations: More-than-wet Geographies of the Black Mediterranean(Franco Angeli, 2024) won the 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award and, among other several publications in the field, she co-edited with Philip Steinberg the Social and Cultural Geography 2025 Special Issue “The Trans-Actional Ocean”. Her research addresses as a scholar activist transfeminist movements, social reproductive justice – especially in relation to health geographies – and the role of stories, narratives, and fabulations in feminist thought. For a full list of her publications see: UniPa; ResearchGate.