Itziar Ziga , Diventare cagna, 2022

When one speaks of ‘transfeminism’ one often fails to convey the complexity of the world one is talking about. If the scene we are talking about is the proletarian one of the slums of half of Europe, the show is assured! Foul-mouthed, irreverent, anarchic: with Becoming a Bitch, Itziar Ziga gives vent to the voice of the last and the least, of street feminism, outcasts and prostitutes, spitting in the face of all respectability, whether progressive or conservative. The bitches laugh at the codes of the rich, the bourgeois, but also at the gay man converted into a foreman or the discreet, hard-working lesbian. Itziar Ziga and his bitches whine loudly about their half-empty Prada bags and their frightened faces in the face of the crisis. The bitches ride the crisis, because the crisis is the only way of life they know. More than ten years after its first Spanish-language publication, Diventare cagna, the book-manifesto that inspired thousands of people around the world, is back in Italy.