The task of giving life Casa Marcella, the first trans* and non-binary shelter project in Tuscany, it started in the summer of 2021 through crowdfunding. Today, when the idea of merging Transgenere and Nelumbo Consultorio has become a reality, the ferment around it does not stop, on the contrary. Morphzine, the LGBTQIA+ publishing project backed by Casa Marcella, was born on June 28th. on sales proceeds and allows queer and non-queer artists to freely express their creativity.
The publication of these non-commercial magazines is a natural outgrowth of the vision of Morphine.online, a digital and cultural platform that promotes ethical responsibility through vintage products, recycling and printing. In this way, Morphzine radiates a conscious culture between aesthetics and knowledge, through 7 limited edition numbered fanzines
100 copies each. Each is curated by a variety of talents, each offering a reimagining of ideology through the use of vintage-designed clothing and the recyclable choices provided by the platform.
That’s when seven titles + authors of the first Morphzine series: Nerve Luca Santese + Robert De Titta Graziano; Never born never died Filippo Maria + Sabrina Querci; rebirth Gilda and Bodha; One of a kind Jacopo Benassi; “Here and Now” by Mel Bles; hello sex Alessandro Merlo + Gianluca Persia + Yuri Schiavi; General from the morphine addict. Topics very different from them for ideas and development, such as for example Nerve obsession celebration, understood as the culmination of a persistent state in relation to an idea, image, desire to have or want. Queue, hello sex it is a tribute to the Cocoricò room of the same name opened in 1999. Here Alessandro Merlo sings of the happiness of freedom, the joy of life associated with this scene, and the joy of being oneself. off the floorR.
Sales of each volume of seven fanzines are on the online platform
www.morphine.online at a price of 35 euros, with all proceeds going to Casa Marcella, an entity named after trans activist Marcella di Folco. Thus, the context of protecting and celebrating all uniqueness meets with a free exploration of them in partnership that we cannot miss.
Source: Elle