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.
2017,
Amara Moira,
Brazil,
Portuguese,
Original title: "Antologia Trans: 30 poetas trans, travestis e não-binários" (Trans Anthology: 30 trans, transvestite and non-binary poets).
"How to dream and, at the same time, intervene? Poetry represented, for us, the interface between these two possibilities of political action. It is the discourse that emerges from the painful experiences of T in a cisgender society, but which rises in resistance, in potential. It consolidates dominion over the word and over oneself. Power is not something that is attained at the end of a path, nor is it something that is beyond our reach. It is here, emanating from our articulations, our spaces, and our words."
All the poets and the two illustrators of the publication (Lune Carvalho and Augusto Silva) are students of the Popular Transformation Course, a free initiative that has existed since 2015 in Ação Educativa. The goal is to help trans, transvestite and non-binary people get into college, on a non-profit basis. In all, there are 62 poems with themes ranging from the experience of the transgender body, sex, beauty, love, and transition.
With the preface by Amara Moira, the work brings together poetry from such poets as Alex Tecruzi, Alexxa Araújo, Amanda Paschoal, Amara Moira, Apollo Franco, Augusto Silva, Bernardo Enoch Mota, Bruno Hats, Calla, Carmim, Cecília Silva, Christian Lorenzzo Karavla, Dannyele Cavalcante, Dodi Leal, Enzo Beneducci, Giovani Diaz, Ika Eloah, Kyem Araújo, Lua Lucas, Luan Bressanini, Luq Souto Ferreira, Lucifer Ekant, Naná DeLuca, Patricia Borges da Silva, Peter Milanez, Rená Zoé, Samantha Andrade, Teodoro Albuquerque, Thais Azevedo and Wictor Ferreira.
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