HUNTING BLACK METEORITES: Gender Transgression + Sacred Stones includes research into myths and histories of queer and third gender folks alongside synchronicities that occurred over several months in Sicily and Southern Italy while visiting ancestral villages and sacred sites dedicated to Black Madonnas, Cybele, Attis, and several saints, sibyls, and nymphs. 

An ancestral village of Campagna is located an hour from the Sanctuary of Madonna di Montevergine to the north and the hermitage of San Michele a le Grottelle to the south. Madonna di Montevergine is a Black Madonna and the patron of gender expansion and LGBT folks. Among her pilgrims are the femminielli, people of a third-gender who are considered lucky and sacred. The sanctuary is located at an ancient site dedicated to Cybele – mother goddess of the harvest, who is surrounded by wild music, wine, and ecstatic dancing. Who existed in liminality and whose sacred symbol is a black meteorite, and whose priests included the Galli, prophets of a third gender. The hermitage of San Michele a le Grottelle is a cave once dedicated to Attis, consort of Cybele. 

riso printed in olive, light lime, scarlet, blue, mist, and black. 46 pages. 7 in x 8.5 in.