"The most hidden women in history have always existed. I'm sure you've only known us recently, maybe we're totally new to your world, but we've reached the surface to stay. We're here. And I've written you a book."
There are times in life when we finally see ourselves in fullness. That's when we stop questioning ourselves, we understand ourselves and we decide, simply, to be. Moments of an impressive transformative capacity that mark us because they define us and make us free forever.
In the life of our protagonist, this clarifying and magical photograph came about, after years of intimate doubts about gender identity and sexuality, when she opened Pandora's wardrobe and tried on her partner's sky-blue nightgown: "In the mirror in the room I finally see myself in a shape of my own. I've curdled. The Taboo is broken. Life that used to spin like a spinning top now takes on meaning."
Judith Juanhuix is a researcher with PhD in physics and trans activist. In this book, of extraordinary honesty and literary beauty, she recounts her passage through the misery of violence, guilt, fear, and contempt of those who believe themselves superior "because they are more equal to all". But also for all possible forms of happiness.
Her life journey is full of setbacks and challenges to show herself to the world as she is: a woman who fights against a mountain of stigmas comfortably installed in our society. Their struggle is also an intimate struggle for your freedom. You will find a woman with a zest for life. A trans woman. A woman.
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