Transfeminist Resistance in Europe’s Stateless Nations. Anticolonial Struggles Against Anti-gender and Anti-feminist Politics in Sardinia and Corsica

Analyses of antigender and antifeminist politics in Europe centre the nation-state as both the site and the scale of inquiry. Such framings erase experiences and resistances of stateless nations, communities whose histories of colonisation and dispossession remain structurally denied within the borders of nation-states. I interrogate these silences by focusing on Sardinia and Corsica, Mediterranean stateless nations situated at the crossroads of Southern Europe and the Global South. Both islands have long been subjected to internal colonialism and extractivist state policies that turn them into sacrifice zones for military, energy, and carceral infrastructures. In these contexts, antigender and antifeminist politics function as technologies of colonial governance, reproducing internal othering, delegitimising local knowledges and dissent, and consolidating the subaltern position of these territories within the European order. Through a mapping of transfeminist groups in Sardinia and Corsica and grounding in an anticolonial and intersectional framework, I present how local transfeminist resistances confront the entangled operations of antigender and antifeminist politics with internal colonial domination. The research foregrounds also how transfeminist groups challenge the epistemic and geopolitical privileges through which dominant European feminist and transfeminist narratives contribute to peripheralizing resistances in subaltern territories.