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.
2022,
Giuseppe Masullo,
Italian,
Marianna Coppola,
Original title: "Affettività invisibili: Storie e vissuti di persone e famiglie transgender" (Invisible affectivity: Stories and experiences of transgender people and families) by Giuseppe Masullo and Marianna Coppola.
The concept of family has acquired, over the decades, greater forms of legitimation on the scientific level even if, however, the paths of analysis have emphasized a traditional position that does not contemplate homoparental families. This starts from the assumption that the parental capacity corresponds to a given type of family, and not to its main function of caring.
This has also led to leaving on the margins, the lives as well as the socio-political problems encountered by individuals who exist outside the most normalized categories (those of cisgender gays and lesbians), and who remain outside (by choice or by constraint) from the question of parenthood and marriage (civil union).
This volume therefore intends to give voice to the experiences of transgender people and couples, to the various ways in which notions of family are deconstructed and reconstructed to adapt to identity, sexuality and non-normative provisions. From the stories, it emerges that the choice of "making a family" of transgender people (both in switch couples and in gender-mixed couples) is mainly based on two aspects: the success of the gender transition path (of one or both partners), the social recognition of the couple.
The experiences described here allow us to make evident the imaginaries that reproduce these new types of family (on which in our country there is a lack of analysis and specific research) as well as unprecedented forms of oppression that highlight "in" and "out" the rainbow community, against the background of ideal models forged and widespread in the hetero-homonormative horizon.
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