Francesca Melandri
@fmelandriwriter.bsky.social
Author (Rome-Berlin)
Europe is my home
No justice no peace
Europe is my home
No justice no peace
Alberto Trentini, operatore della ong Humanity & Inclusion per l'assistenza ai disabili, è da mesi ingiustamente in carcere in Venezuela
Repubblica oggi pubblica i messaggi che Massimo Carlotto, @helenajaneczek.bsky.social , io e altri gli abbiamo scritto, qui:
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...
Repubblica oggi pubblica i messaggi che Massimo Carlotto, @helenajaneczek.bsky.social , io e altri gli abbiamo scritto, qui:
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...
June 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Alberto Trentini, operatore della ong Humanity & Inclusion per l'assistenza ai disabili, è da mesi ingiustamente in carcere in Venezuela
Repubblica oggi pubblica i messaggi che Massimo Carlotto, @helenajaneczek.bsky.social , io e altri gli abbiamo scritto, qui:
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...
Repubblica oggi pubblica i messaggi che Massimo Carlotto, @helenajaneczek.bsky.social , io e altri gli abbiamo scritto, qui:
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...
I wrote this opinion piece for the "Idées" section of @lemonde.fr , 29-30 May 2025
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
May 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I wrote this opinion piece for the "Idées" section of @lemonde.fr , 29-30 May 2025
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
@yarynagrusha.bsky.social's touching words remind me that being a writer need not be (as it too often is) a self-absorbed and basicallly irrelevant job, but can weave webs of mutual connections, both personal & collective, in a word: human
Thank you/grazie/dyakuyu
www.instagram.com/p/DJixFNZtaeA/
Thank you/grazie/dyakuyu
www.instagram.com/p/DJixFNZtaeA/
May 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
@yarynagrusha.bsky.social's touching words remind me that being a writer need not be (as it too often is) a self-absorbed and basicallly irrelevant job, but can weave webs of mutual connections, both personal & collective, in a word: human
Thank you/grazie/dyakuyu
www.instagram.com/p/DJixFNZtaeA/
Thank you/grazie/dyakuyu
www.instagram.com/p/DJixFNZtaeA/
Judging by Medvedev's low key, undestated response, the joint visit to Kyiv by the leaders of F, D, UK & PL was a truly resounding success
("The Pangender Arses" sounds like a non-binary punk band)
("The Pangender Arses" sounds like a non-binary punk band)
May 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Judging by Medvedev's low key, undestated response, the joint visit to Kyiv by the leaders of F, D, UK & PL was a truly resounding success
("The Pangender Arses" sounds like a non-binary punk band)
("The Pangender Arses" sounds like a non-binary punk band)
Yesterday May 9th, Europe Day, I was invited by the European School @ Munich to give a speech to the students about "European values"
It's an expression I am very skeptical about, and I told them why
You can read the whole speech on my substack at this link:
open.substack.com/pub/francesc...
It's an expression I am very skeptical about, and I told them why
You can read the whole speech on my substack at this link:
open.substack.com/pub/francesc...
May 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Yesterday May 9th, Europe Day, I was invited by the European School @ Munich to give a speech to the students about "European values"
It's an expression I am very skeptical about, and I told them why
You can read the whole speech on my substack at this link:
open.substack.com/pub/francesc...
It's an expression I am very skeptical about, and I told them why
You can read the whole speech on my substack at this link:
open.substack.com/pub/francesc...
A mathematician missionary used to living among the poor, whose last public utterance has been "JDV is wrong"
The Conclave Comrades have joined the Resistance 😀
The Conclave Comrades have joined the Resistance 😀
May 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A mathematician missionary used to living among the poor, whose last public utterance has been "JDV is wrong"
The Conclave Comrades have joined the Resistance 😀
The Conclave Comrades have joined the Resistance 😀
Yesterday in Vienna I had the honor of receiving the Bruno Kreisky Prize for my complete works from the @renner-institut.at. Wonderful @johannes-gress.at & @jagodamarinic.com were awarded too - congrats!
I also delivered the keynote speech, stay tuned for the published version coming soon
I also delivered the keynote speech, stay tuned for the published version coming soon
May 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Yesterday in Vienna I had the honor of receiving the Bruno Kreisky Prize for my complete works from the @renner-institut.at. Wonderful @johannes-gress.at & @jagodamarinic.com were awarded too - congrats!
I also delivered the keynote speech, stay tuned for the published version coming soon
I also delivered the keynote speech, stay tuned for the published version coming soon
WIEN/VIENNA -Tuesday 6 May 6.30 pm
The Italian Institute of Culture @ Vienna is hosting a retrospective of my work, from "Eva sleeps" to "Cold feet"
There will be also a screening of the IDFA-nomimated film "Vera " which I directed in 2010
tickets here:
iicvienna.esteri.it/de/gli_event...
The Italian Institute of Culture @ Vienna is hosting a retrospective of my work, from "Eva sleeps" to "Cold feet"
There will be also a screening of the IDFA-nomimated film "Vera " which I directed in 2010
tickets here:
iicvienna.esteri.it/de/gli_event...
May 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
WIEN/VIENNA -Tuesday 6 May 6.30 pm
The Italian Institute of Culture @ Vienna is hosting a retrospective of my work, from "Eva sleeps" to "Cold feet"
There will be also a screening of the IDFA-nomimated film "Vera " which I directed in 2010
tickets here:
iicvienna.esteri.it/de/gli_event...
The Italian Institute of Culture @ Vienna is hosting a retrospective of my work, from "Eva sleeps" to "Cold feet"
There will be also a screening of the IDFA-nomimated film "Vera " which I directed in 2010
tickets here:
iicvienna.esteri.it/de/gli_event...
After centuries of carrying USA's struggle for freedom and justice on their backs, Black women are skipping a round
Let those who have created this mess - ie 'white' voters - clean it up this time
"Sometimes I told you so", artwork by @navirobins.bsky.social
www.navirobins.net/product-page...
Let those who have created this mess - ie 'white' voters - clean it up this time
"Sometimes I told you so", artwork by @navirobins.bsky.social
www.navirobins.net/product-page...
April 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
After centuries of carrying USA's struggle for freedom and justice on their backs, Black women are skipping a round
Let those who have created this mess - ie 'white' voters - clean it up this time
"Sometimes I told you so", artwork by @navirobins.bsky.social
www.navirobins.net/product-page...
Let those who have created this mess - ie 'white' voters - clean it up this time
"Sometimes I told you so", artwork by @navirobins.bsky.social
www.navirobins.net/product-page...
As a European, this US triumph of white suprematist-eugenicist-oligarchic cruelty feels like a taste of what Germany could be hadn't it decisively repudiated Nazism nor taught its horrors in school for years
Plus Nazism lasted only 13 years, while US structural politics of cruelty are centuries old
Plus Nazism lasted only 13 years, while US structural politics of cruelty are centuries old
April 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
As a European, this US triumph of white suprematist-eugenicist-oligarchic cruelty feels like a taste of what Germany could be hadn't it decisively repudiated Nazism nor taught its horrors in school for years
Plus Nazism lasted only 13 years, while US structural politics of cruelty are centuries old
Plus Nazism lasted only 13 years, while US structural politics of cruelty are centuries old
'Progressisti' che davanti a foto di donne riverse sui corpi del figli a Gaza provano pietà e indignazione ma davanti alla stessa foto da Sumy sanno solo dire "eh l'allargamento della NATO"
Speculare tra alcuni 'liberali'
L'oscena solidarietà/empatia selettiva ci porterà all'inferno come 90 anni fa
Speculare tra alcuni 'liberali'
L'oscena solidarietà/empatia selettiva ci porterà all'inferno come 90 anni fa
April 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
'Progressisti' che davanti a foto di donne riverse sui corpi del figli a Gaza provano pietà e indignazione ma davanti alla stessa foto da Sumy sanno solo dire "eh l'allargamento della NATO"
Speculare tra alcuni 'liberali'
L'oscena solidarietà/empatia selettiva ci porterà all'inferno come 90 anni fa
Speculare tra alcuni 'liberali'
L'oscena solidarietà/empatia selettiva ci porterà all'inferno come 90 anni fa
3 years ago Bucha was liberated from Russian occupiers
Many reporters who arrived on the scene still suffer from PTSD because of what they saw
The man who was yelled at by JDV to be 'thankful' looked like this as he walked around Bucha
We in the West still don't grasp what Ukraine is going through
Many reporters who arrived on the scene still suffer from PTSD because of what they saw
The man who was yelled at by JDV to be 'thankful' looked like this as he walked around Bucha
We in the West still don't grasp what Ukraine is going through
March 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
3 years ago Bucha was liberated from Russian occupiers
Many reporters who arrived on the scene still suffer from PTSD because of what they saw
The man who was yelled at by JDV to be 'thankful' looked like this as he walked around Bucha
We in the West still don't grasp what Ukraine is going through
Many reporters who arrived on the scene still suffer from PTSD because of what they saw
The man who was yelled at by JDV to be 'thankful' looked like this as he walked around Bucha
We in the West still don't grasp what Ukraine is going through
Today during a lecture at Stockholm University, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee said:
"Peace is not just an absence of war.
Peace is the presence of conditions that gives dignity to every human being"
"Peace is not just an absence of war.
Peace is the presence of conditions that gives dignity to every human being"
March 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today during a lecture at Stockholm University, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee said:
"Peace is not just an absence of war.
Peace is the presence of conditions that gives dignity to every human being"
"Peace is not just an absence of war.
Peace is the presence of conditions that gives dignity to every human being"
Calypso's beach
It's clear why Ulysses didn't leave for 7 years
#Gozo
#Malta
#Mediterranean
#OurBelovedSea
It's clear why Ulysses didn't leave for 7 years
#Gozo
#Malta
#Mediterranean
#OurBelovedSea
March 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Calypso's beach
It's clear why Ulysses didn't leave for 7 years
#Gozo
#Malta
#Mediterranean
#OurBelovedSea
It's clear why Ulysses didn't leave for 7 years
#Gozo
#Malta
#Mediterranean
#OurBelovedSea
Malta's light
March 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Malta's light
dear American friends please explain to this bewildered European ally: where are your mass rallies?
Yes, there are heroic individual acts resisting ICE, Tesla sabotage, townhalls heckling GOP's
But where are the Belgrade/Tbilisi crowds,
Tehran '22 crowds, EuroMaidan@Kyiv '14 crowds?
WHERE ARE YOU?
Yes, there are heroic individual acts resisting ICE, Tesla sabotage, townhalls heckling GOP's
But where are the Belgrade/Tbilisi crowds,
Tehran '22 crowds, EuroMaidan@Kyiv '14 crowds?
WHERE ARE YOU?
March 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
dear American friends please explain to this bewildered European ally: where are your mass rallies?
Yes, there are heroic individual acts resisting ICE, Tesla sabotage, townhalls heckling GOP's
But where are the Belgrade/Tbilisi crowds,
Tehran '22 crowds, EuroMaidan@Kyiv '14 crowds?
WHERE ARE YOU?
Yes, there are heroic individual acts resisting ICE, Tesla sabotage, townhalls heckling GOP's
But where are the Belgrade/Tbilisi crowds,
Tehran '22 crowds, EuroMaidan@Kyiv '14 crowds?
WHERE ARE YOU?
Ieri piccola manifestazione serba anche a Roma:
March 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ieri piccola manifestazione serba anche a Roma:
Piazza del Popolo @ Roma, oggi
Per un'Europa libera, forte, democratica, che lavora per la pace purché sia giusta
Per un'Europa libera, forte, democratica, che lavora per la pace purché sia giusta
March 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Piazza del Popolo @ Roma, oggi
Per un'Europa libera, forte, democratica, che lavora per la pace purché sia giusta
Per un'Europa libera, forte, democratica, che lavora per la pace purché sia giusta
Was wondering these days re. Zelensky's televised bullying by DT&JDV:
Where did I already see this very energy?
Then I remembered this:
1938, Jews forced to scrub Vienna's streets
Two Nazis ordering a Jew to publicly grovel at their feet, so their cult can feel superior glee
But - he refused
1/2
Where did I already see this very energy?
Then I remembered this:
1938, Jews forced to scrub Vienna's streets
Two Nazis ordering a Jew to publicly grovel at their feet, so their cult can feel superior glee
But - he refused
1/2
March 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Was wondering these days re. Zelensky's televised bullying by DT&JDV:
Where did I already see this very energy?
Then I remembered this:
1938, Jews forced to scrub Vienna's streets
Two Nazis ordering a Jew to publicly grovel at their feet, so their cult can feel superior glee
But - he refused
1/2
Where did I already see this very energy?
Then I remembered this:
1938, Jews forced to scrub Vienna's streets
Two Nazis ordering a Jew to publicly grovel at their feet, so their cult can feel superior glee
But - he refused
1/2
(Personal)
Today and for the 4th time I signed a contract with Editions Gallimard
Piedi Freddi's French translation will be crafted by wonderful wordsmith Danièle Valin, like my previous books
What an enduring honor to be able to call one of the world's most prestigious publishers my French home
Today and for the 4th time I signed a contract with Editions Gallimard
Piedi Freddi's French translation will be crafted by wonderful wordsmith Danièle Valin, like my previous books
What an enduring honor to be able to call one of the world's most prestigious publishers my French home
March 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
(Personal)
Today and for the 4th time I signed a contract with Editions Gallimard
Piedi Freddi's French translation will be crafted by wonderful wordsmith Danièle Valin, like my previous books
What an enduring honor to be able to call one of the world's most prestigious publishers my French home
Today and for the 4th time I signed a contract with Editions Gallimard
Piedi Freddi's French translation will be crafted by wonderful wordsmith Danièle Valin, like my previous books
What an enduring honor to be able to call one of the world's most prestigious publishers my French home
The USA's self-inflicted fall from its place as leader of the Western world is provoking fear, worry, anger, satisfaction, a sense of betrayal, glee, grief, resolve, disbelief etc...
But whatever one feels about it, this historic photo captures the moment when this new reality was first on display
But whatever one feels about it, this historic photo captures the moment when this new reality was first on display
March 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The USA's self-inflicted fall from its place as leader of the Western world is provoking fear, worry, anger, satisfaction, a sense of betrayal, glee, grief, resolve, disbelief etc...
But whatever one feels about it, this historic photo captures the moment when this new reality was first on display
But whatever one feels about it, this historic photo captures the moment when this new reality was first on display
Piazza Santi Apostoli, Roma
Ora
Ora
March 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Piazza Santi Apostoli, Roma
Ora
Ora
Am going here/sto andando qui
March 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Am going here/sto andando qui
Slava EUkraine
March 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Slava EUkraine
