Fammi Capire. Una ricerca tra le rappresentazioni di corpi, affettività e sessualità negli albi illustrati, per decostruire stereotipi e pregiudizi

FAMMI CAPIRE (Let me understand) is a project born in 2016. It is the product of a reflection on picture books as educational and training tools and on how picture books for 0-18 years, in Italy and in Europe, represent and narrate bodies, genders and sexualities and all that is connected to these themes: desire, pleasure, relationships, curiosities, questions and emotions. From the historical books of the Sixties to the most recent publications, approaches, styles, themes are outlined and sterotypes, taboos, rigid gender norms are identified that feed and survive among the pages. There are few cases who question the dominant heteronormativity that feeds marginalization and discrimination, the binarism that stigmatizes and silences the existence of non-conforming subjects and the questions that come with the approach to these issues. Sanitarisation that ejects pleasure, desire, emotions and relationships from these issues prevails. A work whose outcomes precisely question the educational domain and the school, times and approaches dedicated to bodies and sexuality in a school that denies them, sanctions them, invisibilizes them and normalizes them.