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Fiore de Henriquez

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is on Italian-British sculptor Fiore de Henriquez, whose art reflected her own complicated relationship with gender and sex as an intersex person. Join us to hear about Fiore distracting Nazis with crepes, seducing everyone around her whether she meant to or not, refounding a town, and ruminating on the gendered nature of clay. Check out our website, where you can find our sources, as well as everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Queer is Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world

0:04.1

and throughout time. My name is Eli. I'm Alice. And today we're talking about the Italian

0:09.0

British sculptor Fiore de Anriquez. I'd like to acknowledge the Banerong-Bunwerang people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional

0:24.5

owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their elders past and

0:28.9

present. We recognise them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this

0:33.8

podcast. We have some content warnings for this episode. This episode will contain

0:37.8

discussions of periodypical homophobia, misogyny, and especially intersexphobia, including

0:43.2

a brief mention of a non-consensual medical examination and discussion of genital modification

0:48.8

and potential pressure to undergo genital modification. It will also contain explicit discussions of sex and descriptions of genitals, as well

0:56.8

as discussions of World War II, specifically fascist Italy, and wartime torture.

1:01.9

The episode will also contain brief mentions of alcoholism, drunk driving, and deliberately

1:07.2

getting someone drunk in order to manipulate them, as well as a brief mention of

1:11.4

ableism and one swear word in a quote. Lastly, the episode will contain the frequent use of the word

1:17.1

hermaphrodite, because Fiore was intersex and very strongly identified with this word.

1:22.6

We're going to be using this word in quotes and then also outside of quotes when we are

1:27.1

specifically discussing Fiore's identity. Because this word in quotes and then also outside of quotes when we are specifically discussing

1:28.2

Fiore's identity. Because this word is currently viewed as derogatory and outdated by the

1:32.8

intersex community, when we are speaking more broadly about intersex people, we will obviously

1:36.7

use the word intersex instead. My main source for this episode was the biography, Art and

1:42.2

Androgyne, The Life of Sculptor Fiore de

1:44.3

Enrique by Jan Marsh. There is also a documentary called Fiore in love with clay, but it

1:50.0

heavily featured Jan Marsh, and it doesn't really provide much information the biography

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