The poems of Mirella Izzo, founder of Crisalide AzioneTrans ONLUS, on the themes dear to her and directly concerning her biography as a transgender, lesbian, and - later - disabled woman. She elaborates on the themes - some of which - never dealt with in the form of poetry: gender transition from male to female, love and trans/lesbian sex, physical handicap, and the cybernetic body.
For those who know the author for her public commitment, the book is a way to find her most personal and private emotions. For those who don't know her, this is a way to get closer, through her poems, to the problems of transgender (or transsexual) people, to lesbian love - especially translesbian - but also concerning the disabled and the cybernetic body.
Being of a lesbian sexual orientation, she addressed it in various articles, tending to underline the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation. The theme was handled by her shortly after her transition in 2001, explaining that many transsexual people, as she did before the gender transition, had an attraction to people of the biological sex opposite to their own. She continued to focus on this topic in Translebism (2009).
Another theme dealt with extensively by her was the so-called "transfeminism". She wrote articles for the press (the Daily Liberation) and the section La posta di Mirella for the website of GAY.tv.
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