ABOUT ME
I am Sam. A threshold, a fish out of water, a remembering. A short name stretched between Samuele and Samira, between what was named and what insists on becoming.
I move through the world as a trans femme non-binary body, but also as a question—a soft and persistent refusal of borders drawn before I arrived.
They/them are not just pronouns; they are a landscape. Inner and outer. A place where multiplicity is not fragmentation, but ecology.
I was told bodies like mine are contra naturam—against nature. But I have learned to sit with the soil long enough to hear its quiet dissent.
Nothing in the forest grows in a straight line. Nothing in the sea asks permission to transform. Decay feeds life. Ambiguity sustains ecosystems.
So I ask: what kind of “nature” requires my erasure to exist?
My work begins in the fracture between imposed narratives and lived truth, in the violence of a cis-tem that names itself as order while failing to recognise its own dissonance.
As these structures tremble, they reveal their paradox: the more they cling, the more unnatural they become.
Through art, dramatherapy, and embodied presence, I weave queer experience, ecological response-ability, and a listening that is both soulful and political.
To care for the Earth is to refuse the hierarchies imposed on our bodies. To care for queer bodies is to remember we, too, are landscapes—eroded, fertile, resilient, sacred.
In Sicily and beyond, I offer spaces of witnessing, where stories unfold and marginalised lives reclaim authorship.
This is not just my work. It is my way of being in relation—to self, to others, to land, to all that refuses to fit, and therefore teaches us how to live.
MY APPROACH
My approach is deeply influenced by Jungian psychology. My core training in the Sesame approach to dramatherapy reflects a mythopoetic approach to the Psyche. Trainings in Authentic Movement and in supervision (Re-Vision) are grounded in soul-making – analytical and archetypal psychological perspectives.
You may wonder if the process is a linear one, indeed, it is not. As Jung suggests
'the way is not straight but appears to go round in circles' (Jung, CW12, para.34)
In a world stuck in binary oppositions, the work I do aims to offer a space for you to sit at the crossroads. The oblique approach of Sesame meets queer culture both pointing at a third space which native language is the open, not-interpretative image.
Taking a step back from the literalised world of everyday life and one forward into the metaphorical of stories, myths and dreams can allow expansion of vision beyond the periphery of ego culture.
THE OTHER WITHIN
'If something that seems quite mad or sinful enters your head in the future, should you feel like murdering someone or committing some enormity, remember for a moment that is Abraxas [God who is both god and devil] at work in your imagination! The person you wish to murder is never Mr So and So. He is only a disguise. When we hate someone we are hating something that is within ourselves, in his image. We are never stirred up by something which does not already exist within us.' Demian, Hermann Hesse, 1919
