#quellavoltache, Italy’s #MeToo before #MeToo

Giulia Blasi
14 min readOct 12, 2019

Two years later, little has changed. But a lot has changed, too.

Donatella Colasanti was only seventeen when she and Rosaria Lopez, nineteen, first saw Angelo Izzo, Andrea Ghira and Gianni Guido. It was the summer of 1975 when the two girls met the three boys at a bar in southern Rome, and agreed to spend a weekend out of town with them, only to find themselves sequestered away in a…

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Giulia Blasi

Writer, teacher, public speaker, in that order. Nerd when it wasn’t cool. Bookworm.