A random collection of over 1910 books and audiobooks authored by or about my transgender, intersex sisters, and gender-nonconforming persons all over the world. I read some of them, and I was inspired by some of them. I met some of the authors and heroines, some of them are my best friends, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing some of them. If you know of any transgender biography that I have not covered yet, please let me know.
2013,
C. Pallarin,
Italian,
R. Padovano,
Original title: "Eschimesi in Amazzonia: Dialoghi intorno alla depatologizzazione della transessualità" (Eskimos in the Amazon. Dialogues around the depathologization of transsexuality) by C. Pallarin and R. Padovano.
Like Eskimos in the Amazon, transgender and transsexual people live in a context that did not provide for them, in constant contrast with the social rules and cultural conventions of the habitat. At every latitude and at all times there have been people with a non-conforming gender, defined by various names, the "Hijras" in India, the "Sworn Virgins" in the Balkans, the "Two Spirits" of the Native Americans, the Neapolitan "Femminielli"... The realities of trans existences, freed from the stigma of pathology, can bring into play an overall redefinition of who we are, as women, men, trans, lesbians, gays, and intersexes.
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