ISULA MESTIZA - Ten springs full of love and fights: a new column from the Sans-Papiers desk (Sportello)

“Isula mestiza” brings together the Sicilian isula/isola (“island”) with the concept of mestizaje developed by Gloria Anzaldúa — understood as a condition of “mixture,” of being shaped at once by plural elements of identity, gender, languages, and cultures — and evokes Sicily as a borderland along the Central Mediterranean route. This spring, the Sans-Papiers desk of Arci Porco Rosso turns ten. Ten years of love and fights; ten years of relationships and bonds built day by day against exclusion, racism, and precarity, in a space that becomes a public square every time we open the shutter in Ballarò, Palermo. Read the full article (March 2026) here.