Cristiana dell'Anna and the stigma of being a woman and a southerner
Discrimination - gender, racial and sexual - is precocious and affects people from an early age. Cristiana Dell’Anna, the actress who played the role of "Donna Patrizia" in Gomorrah, also noticed this and yesterday spoke during "We are Pride", an event entirely dedicated to the themes of inclusion and diversity. An initiative which, in the intentions of Maura Gancitano and Andrea Colamedici - the two creators - proposed to "give a voice to the unheard, to fight above all for what does not concern us, to unite the struggles of the oppressed in the name of wonder". To affirm that the purpose has been more than respected, just pay attention to the monologue "staged" by Dell’Anna in which the woman recounts some clips of private life in which she felt discriminated against as a woman and as a southern citizen.
"Why did you make me female?"
It all started with a simple and mundane matter like gifts. When she is only a child, Cristiana soon realizes the abysmal difference that exists between the gifts received by her and those destined for her brother. For him geographic maps, telescopes and other intelligent and innovative toys. For her, only and exclusively plush. The frustration of being categorized only as a woman and suffering the resulting limitations is such that, at the age of 7/8, she poses a question to her parents: "Why did you make me female?". A question behind which lies the awareness that that of the "female" is not a simple life, but made up of continuous deprivation and a constant struggle against prejudices and stereotypes. The same ones that her father feeds with respect to his dream of specializing in cardiac surgery, an ambition held back by the man who considers it "a branch with few women".
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"We are all human beings in constant evolution"
It was the sum of these episodes that stimulated the actress, who grew up between Naples and Castel Volturno, to reflect on the identity of each of us, an aspect rich in nuances, too often reduced by society to a single color. As if being a woman, being homosexual, being an immigrant were the only categories in which our identity can manifest itself, while, instead, the reality is that "we are all human beings in constant evolution". It is only when she has come to this conclusion and understood that each of us can do and become whatever she wants without territoriality, gender or sexual orientation becoming a limit that Cristiana has found full self-realization as person and not just a woman. That may be why, in the end, she became an actress and "playing" with identity turned into a real job for her, overturning once and for all the stereotypical roles imposed by society.
