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.
Original title: "La fille d’elle-même" (The Daughter of Herself) by Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay. The book was published in 2021 and republished in 2023."Winner 2022, Prix des Libraires Rights for TV adaptation purchased by Zone 3 A runaway bestseller in Québec, where it has captured the hearts of readers and pushed trans-identity into the mainstream conversation, Dandelion Daughter is an intimate, courageous portrait of what it’s like to grow up having been assigned the wrong sex at birth.Set against the windswept countryside of the remote Charlevoix region some five hours north of Montreal,
2021,
2023,
Canada,
French,
Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay,
Gabrielle Tremblay,
Full title: "Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge" by Barbara Marie Minney.This is the second poetry book by Barbara Marie Minney. She is a transgender woman, award winning poet, writer, speaker, teaching artist, and quiet activist. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Politico, The Buckeye Flame, The Gasconade Review, Gargoyle Magazine, The Pine Cone Review, Women Speak: Women of Appalachia Project, Woman Scream: The International Poetry Anthology of Female Voices, The New Wasteland, new words (issue one): a trans and gender-expansive journal, and I Thought I H
2021,
Barbara Marie Minney,
English,
Interview,
Original title: "Crianças Trans: Infâncias possíveis" (Trans Children: Possible Childhoods) by Sofia Favero."Trans kids, do you exist? The question is, in my view, rhetorical. Sofia pursues her childhood with unparalleled refinement and wit in this publication. Language, as always, is placed in a captious way when we refer to what was not posited, at first, as "natural" from the cisgender gaze.The author undertakes a fantastic work, using a self-history that is intertwined with contemporary virtual culture and scientific literature, to tell us about something central to studies on childhood,
2021,
Brazil,
Portuguese,
Sofia Favero,
Full title: "Reflections in the Mirror: True Life Story of a Transgender Woman" by Delissa Dawn."Delissa Dawn was born 1971 in Tulsa, Ok as a boy. From the early age of three, she experienced the beginning of a lifetime of traumatic experiences and trials that would nearly destroy her. Knowing she was different from a very young age, she began to explore her curiosity and would become the center of discrimination within her own family.
Delissa spent years trying to prove to her family that she was a man which in turn, only created a world of self-hate, depression, alcoholism, and suicidal tho
2021,
Delissa Dawn,
English,
Original title: "Autobiografias trans: Escritas em movimento" (Trans Autobiographies: Writing on the Move) by Leocádia Chaves and Carolina Edições."In this book, Leocádia Chaves presents in an unprecedented way the cartography of the autobiographical writing of transgender people in Brazil between 1982 and 2019, recognizing it as the result of organization and resistance in the contemporary literary field.The approach of the texts opens up as a space for listening, whether for radical narrators, as they lay bare the transphobic mechanisms of oppression in our society, or for the insurgency of
2021,
Carolina Edições,
Leocádia Chaves,
Portuguese,
Original title: "Três décadas e meia" (Three and a half decades) by Daniela de Carvalho."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 hars
2021,
Brazil,
Daniela de Carvalho,
Portuguese,
Full title: "Transgender in India: Achievers and Survivors" by IAS Dr C K Gariyali and Priyadarshini Rajkumar."The book, "Transgender — Achievers and Survivors" is authors’ tribute to the transgender community who have suffered immense indignities and discrimination in India starting from the decline of Mughal Empire when the British Raj imposed the 16th century anti-buggery law upon them.They were criminalized and prevented from following their traditional profession, wearing female attire or performing in public and reduced to penury and ignominy. This situation continued in free India till
2021,
English,
IAS Dr C K Gariyali,
India,
Priyadarshini Rajkumar,
Original title: "A reinvenção do corpo: Sexualidade e gênero na experiência transexual" (The Reinvention of the Body: Sexuality and Gender in the Transsexual Experience) by Berenice Bento."This book is anchored in the life stories of people who have changed their bodies, surgically or not, to become real, so as not to be 'freaks', a common expression among transsexuals. The reinvention of the body: sexuality and gender in the transsexual experience will suggest that explanations for the emergence of the transsexual experience should be sought in the historical and social articulations that pr
2021,
Berenice Bento,
Brazil,
Portuguese,
Original title: "Trans: Histórias reais que ajudam a entender a vida das pessoas transexuais desde a infância" (Trans: Real stories that help understand the lives of transgender people from childhood) by Renata Ceribelli and Bruno Della Latta."In Trans - Real stories that help to understand the lives of transgender people since childhood, journalists Renata Ceribelli and Bruno Della Latta revisit the interviewees of the report and also gather unpublished accounts of those who are often silenced and discriminated against daily.""This book requires an open and free mind to be able to enter the
2021,
Brazil,
Bruno Della Latta,
Portuguese,
Renata Ceribelli,
Original title: "Pedagogia da Desobediência: Travestilizando a Educação" (Pedagogy of Disobedience: Transvestilizing Education) by Tiffany Odara."The book Pedagogy of Disobedience: Travestilizing Education by researcher, pedagogue and Iyálorixá Thiffany Odara tells about the production of transvestite knowledge in the city of Salvador. Weaving together the histories of the trans movement with the theoretical dialogues of black feminism, Thiffany proposes to travestylize education as a way of building spaces of knowledge that are for all people. A transgressive pedagogy that speaks of cla
2021,
Brazil,
Portuguese,
Thiffany Odara,
Original title: "A construção de mim mesma: Uma história de transição de gênero" (The Making of Myself: A Story of Gender Transition) by Letícia Lanz."For decades, Letícia Lanz presented herself to the world in the role of Geraldo Eustáquio. Understanding yourself differently from most was a long and painful process. In this moving and honest account, Letícia recounts what it was like to come out as a transgender woman at the age of fifty.Letícia Lanz is a psychoanalyst, speaker, activist and was a candidate for mayor of Curitiba in 2020. She is married with three children and five grandchild
2021,
Brazil,
Letícia Lanz,
Portuguese,
Original title: "Valide" (Valid) by Chris Bergeron."Although it is described as an autobiographical science fiction novel, the context it offers is not that far removed from our current world. We project ourselves 30 years into the future, in a world governed by the artificial intelligence Total David. Human beings are then confined and are only allowed a few hours of going out a day. "This feeling of living in a bubble that is in the novel, and that came before the pandemic, is for many trans women what they experience on a daily basis. Valide is a sci-fi and sci-fi novel, but it's also an a
2021,
Canada,
Chris Bergeron,
French,
Original title: "TranSER: Experiencias de vida de mujeres en tránsitos de género en Colombia" (TranSER: Life Experiences of Women in Gender Transitions in Colombia) by Paula Andrea Hoyos-Hernández and Laura Juliana Valderrama Orbegozo.TranSER: life experiences of women in gender transitions in Colombia, allows us to delve into the experiences of 139 women from Cali, Calarcá, Armenia, Jamundí, Bogotá, Bucaramanga and Cartagena, throughout their lives and their different processes of gender transitions. It gives an account of the different human dimensions that contribute to the experience of s
2021,
Colombia,
Laura Juliana Valderrama Orbegozo,
Paula Andrea Hoyos-Hernández,
Spanish,
"Inkognito" is the Finnish language edition of "Inkognitó" by Tibor Noé Kiss, first published in 2010.Tibor/Noémi has visited the women's section of a shoe store for the first time. Another customer groaned and called her names, the salesperson complimented the choice of boots and smiled. Tibor/Noémi tried to smile too. That was four weeks ago. Today she would go out into town in boots. But now she sits alone in an armchair with her body, and each hates the other.Incognito is an impressive depiction of how a football-loving youth finds a stranger in herself and her body. It is a coming-of-age
2021,
Finnish,
Tibor Noé Kiss,
Original title: "El futuro es sin género: Historias trans de Colombia, Chile y Argentina" (The Future is Genderless: Trans Stories from Colombia, Chile, and Argentina) by Sandra Sanchez Lopez.The book tells the stories of trans people from three places in Latin America: Colombia, Argentina, and Chile. In addition to reports, interviews, and chronicles, this book presents reflections on an inclusive journalistic profession, in which we make the political commitment of communication more transparent and leave behind fears and prejudices in the face of the encounters between journalism and activ
2021,
Argentina,
Chile,
Colombia,
Sandra Sanchez Lopez,
Spanish,
Original title: "Újjászületők: nemváltoztató élettörténetek" (Born again: Gender reassignment life stories) by Ferenc Vidra Szabó and Gábor Hero.The book follows the stages of gender reassignment and contains a couple of life stories based on interviews conducted by Ferenc Vidra Szabó. The essence of these subjective stories, the psychological, medical and social summation of the topic processed in the chapter is outlined in the short introductions written by Gábor Hero, who leads the chapters. At the end of the volume, we can also read a compilation about the legal framework of gender reassi
2021,
Ferenc Vidra Szabó,
Gábor Hero,
Hungarian,
Original title: "O Casulo Dandara" (The Dandara Cocoon) by Vitória Holanda.Writing about Dandara and her life may not convince some people who think that being transgender is a disease, that it is a lack of shame or simply because they believe that boys wear blue and girls wear pink. However, it is a way of showing that being transgender in her life was not a child's choice influenced at school or in the media. In other words, she was born Dandara.
2021,
Brazil,
Portuguese,
Vitória Holanda,
Original title: "Russkie travesti v istorii, kulʹture i povsednevnosti" - Русские травести в истории, культуре и повседневности - (Russian travesties in history, culture and everyday life) by Olga Khoroshilova Ольга Хорошилова.An illustrated history of Russian travesty culture in its various aspects: from frivolous court carnivals to female military formations of the First World War and difficult stories of people whose biological sex did not coincide with the psychological one.
From the male actor who played the role of Joan of Arc for the first time in history and the Russian uncle Max to
2021,
Ol'ga Khoroshilova,
Russian,
Original title: "Otras Vidas. Activismo y Resiliencia Trans en Chile" (Other Lives. Trans Activism and Resilience in Chile).The publication "Other Lives", which is part of a Fondart 2020 project, portrays the experiences of three Chilean trans women in different historical contexts. The stories of Katty Fontey, Silvia Parada and Carla Sepúlveda come together in a welcoming, enlightening and autobiographical book, which delves into the history and memory of the obstacles that trans people faced, and still face, in our country.To this end, the text reviews relevant milestones, such as the confi
2021,
Carla Sepúlveda,
Chile,
Katty Fontey,
Silvia Parada,
Spanish,
Full title: "Remember Me, Vicki Starr: The Visual History of a Trans Renegade" by FOUNDPHOTOCO (Lewis Rawlinson and Albert Tanquero)."Using photos, slides, newspaper clips, and ephemera, this book documents the life of a trans, Latina woman who defied the norms of the era as a topless entertainer in San Francisco during the 1950s and beyond.""Vicki Starr was born in Puerto Rico in 1932 and migrated to the United States, first to New York City, then settled in San Francisco. She began expressing her female gender identity early in life, which caused a rift with her family. She transitioned in
2021,
Albert Tanquero,
English,
Finocchio's,
Lewis Rawlinson,
Puerto Rico,
Vicki Starr,
Victoria Fernandez,
