Original title: "Un papillon dans la tête" (A butterfly in the head) by Armonia Zyra (Armonia Lemaître).
"Armonia Zyra with this collection of poetry, makes us discover "from the inside" the long journey that led her to fulfillment: to become the woman that her body and her deep personality have always been convinced to be. She gives us with strength and sincerity her moods, her difficulties, her renunciations, her disappointments, but also her revolts, her victories. What shines through in these inspired and profound texts is her mistreated, but still intact will, her capacity for analysis, her love, and her generosity.
"Femininity cannot be defined, it is lived," says the author in maxim 17. Isn't it simply a reflection of the struggle that women have had to fight over the centuries to exist as such? To want to become this woman that a genetic error made born as a boy, the author gives us a beautiful lesson in courage."
"When Armonia was born in 1962 in a body that didn't fit her intimate gender, but that she wouldn't really realize until much later. She then lived a difficult childhood and adolescence, not because of my very loving parents, perhaps too much, but because she could not find my place. Victim of deep discomfort and terrible nightmares, she felt inadequate, totally out of step with the role imposed by her entourage, society, and morality. She thought she was crazy for a long time.
However, despite all these difficulties she lived with a partner, and two children were born.
At the age of fifty, her life turned upside down. She separated and thanks to meeting a man, who revealed her to herself and began a long journey to become the woman who had always been in her. She then immersed herself in writing a testimonial book recounting this life experience: "I am a nesting doll".
Now retired and settled in Sète with her husband, she can devote herself to her passions, reading, walking, music but especially the one that takes precedence over all others, writing. It is essential to her as to breathe."
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