Stories from the Body

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, CO.AS.IT and Ascolta Women Inc. present Stories from Il Corpo / Stories from the Body, Ascolta Women’s sixth anthology of creative stories, artwork and photographs.

Launched by Dr Adele Murdolo, CEO Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health, with music and song by Kavisha Mazzella.

This event will be photographed, broadcast live and recorded.

Ascolta Women Inc. is a creative collective of multi-generation Italian Australian women across Australia, Britain and Canada meeting online every two weeks to listen – ascoltare, write creatively and record their stories of Italian heritages and migrant legacies. Women’s bodies have been sites of political struggle for centuries. The writings and visuals in this anthology reinforce the inextricable connections between our bodies, emotions, thinking, our sense of selves, and interactions with the world.