2023-08-12 08:03:42
Time.news – It is the day of the last farewell to Michela Murgia, writer and activist who died Thursday evening at the age of 51 from kidney cancer. The funeral will be held in Rome, at Church of the Artists in Piazza del Popolo, at 3.30pm. In May, the author of Accabadora announced that she was ill and had a few months ahead of her. And so it was.
Murgia has spent the last period fighting for the rights that were closest to her heart: the defense of a non-traditional family, speaking of her “queer family”. In July she married her partner Lorenzo in articulo mortis. A union that she herself has defined as necessary to see the rights of her partner recognized. “We worked with Michela for months on a battle that is extremely urgent: to protect any type of family or non-traditional relationship. What we call ‘queer family’ and which the State does not recognize in any way”, he explained to Time.news, the Bolognese lawyer Cathy La Torre, a close friend of Murgia.
La Torre had been chosen by Michela Murgia to be part of what the intellectual had defined as her “queer family”. “His will – continues La Torre – was political so that political consciences would be shaken on this issue. What I can say with certainty is that millions of consciences have been shaken and that we will continue to carry on, each with their own abilities his legacy”.
“My ability – he concludes – is and will be the right, the right to choose with whom to spend the last days of one’s life and how to protect non-strictly traditional ties. This we have tried to do, live our queerness and make it a reality also before the state and the laws”.
Roberto Saviano, Nicola Lagioia, the publishing house: the world of culture mourns the premature death of the writer, but bipartisan condolences have also come from politics.
“I want to express sincere condolences to the family and friends of the writer Michela Murgia. She was a woman who fought to defend her ideas, albeit notoriously different from mine, and I have great respect for this,” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wrote on Twitter.
On Instagram Elly Schlein recalled the writer as follows: “The love inside friendship. The intertwining of the struggles against oppressive systems. The ties you have woven live, also to understand together how to be, after you. But anyway, always, with you. Your words will continue to change lives. Your voice to be a cure. Take care. And an irreverent scratch, against all hypocrisy and discrimination. #Murgia”.
Matteo Salvini has published a photo with the words: “A prayer”. While Giuseppe Conte called it “a free voice”
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