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.
2016,
Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez,
Spanish,
Original title: "TRANSBARCELONAS: Cultura, género y sexualidad en la España del siglo XX" (Transbarcelonas: culture, gender and sexuality in the Spain of the twentieth century) by Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez.
"The 1970s have been colonized in Spain by the official discourse of the Transition, by political change and the construction of democracy. And like any process of colonization, it has been destructive and deceitful: the trans reality has been as ignored as it has been marginalized.
Thus, Barcelona's trans capital status was not only in the nightclubs, but also in its cinemas and streets. The Spanish political transition was very trans for multiple reasons, during a few years in which fantasy or desire prevailed over good sense and calculation, when some of the political and cultural initiatives that best replicated the reformist, pactist and prudent discourse were born.
Barcelona was trans like never before and like never since, because it stopped conforming. This essay contextualizes some of her cries for freedom and textualizes several of her most radical orgasms throughout the twentieth century, since representations of transsexuality or transvestism explain what many have forgotten: the thermometer of the vitality of a people."
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