"Thirty years is too long to wait for love. That's plenty of time to mature. But is it enough time to live everything you want? Everything you are entitled to? Is it enough time when your own time isn't worth a lifetime? Through phrases, chronicles, and poetry, the author presents an intimate and almost confessional account, which is at the same time the story of one and thousands of women.
They, when in front of the mirror, reflect an inverted truth, opposite to what conservative eyes want to see. The harshness of the words does not come close to reaching the crudeness of reality. Even so, it carries the subtlety that exists in the obvious, opening space for an indispensable reflection. Trans women exist, they are objects of prejudice. Trans women resist, they need respect, dignity, affection and, above all, they need to stop dying as if life itself were not a right."
Daniela de Carvalho is a civil engineer, woman, trans, black and from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro – although none of this defines or exhausts her. Passionate about comics, the poet and writer decided to use words, her old and good friends, to reveal a little of the reality of a Brazilian trans woman in various aspects, both external and private.
Often the story of trans people is told by cis people, who have no idea of our true experiences and produce stories filled with stereotypes and prejudices. Dani Carvalho is a trans woman and tells her experiences through short and poetic texts, showing situations commonly experienced by all of us. The text humanizes the existence of our bodies, brings us closer and awakens empathy, showing that we are people of flesh and blood, with emotion and feelings, not just mere objects made to satisfy the fetishes of cis people. (Alice Pereira, comic artist and author of Small Trans Happinesses).
It is not a work of fiction. Daniela de Carvalho opens her heart to report much of what she has suffered – and continues to suffer – as a trans and black woman. Several of her texts require the reader to pause for a moment to recover; They are strong, honest, and painful, and for that very reason they are annoying. It's her perspectives, her pains; her personal experiences and those of so many other trans women. They exist and have a voice, but we rarely allow them to speak. Shall we stop to listen to them this time?
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