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: "Antologia Trans: 30 poetas trans, travestis e não-binários" (Trans Anthology: 30 trans, transvestite and non-binary poets).
"How to dream and, at the same time, intervene? Poetry represented, for us, the interface between these two possibilities of political action. It is the discourse that emerges from the painful experiences of T in a cisgender society, but which rises in resistance, in potential. It consolidates dominion over the word and over oneself. Power is not something that is attained at the end of a path, nor is it something that is beyond our reach. It is here, emanating from our articulations, our spaces, and our words."
All the poets and the two illustrators of the publication (Lune Carvalho and Augusto Silva) are students of the Popular Transformation Course, a free initiative that has existed since 2015 in Ação Educativa. The goal is to help trans, transvestite and non-binary people get into college, on a non-profit basis. In all, there are 62 poems with themes ranging from the experience of the transgender body, sex, beauty, love, and transition.
2017,
Amara Moira,
Brazil,
Portuguese,
Original title: "Vidas Trans: A luta de transgeneros brasileiros em busca de seu espaco social" (Trans Lives: The struggle of Brazilian transgenders in search of their social space) by Amara Moira, João W. Nery, Márcia Rocha, and Tarso Brant.
In VIDAS TRANS, four trans people: Amara Moira, João W. Nery, Márcia Rocha, and Tarso Brant tell readers about the moment when they realized that something was different, about the feeling of inadequacy before the required standards, about the prejudices and pain experienced inside and outside the family, about the moment of transition and, finally, about the freedom felt by this decision. In four individual reports, each one tells their life story, and constant and everyday struggle in reaffirming the right to their name, body, and full existence.
2019,
Amara Moira,
Brazil,
João W. Nery,
Márcia Rocha,
Portuguese,
Tarso Brant,
Original title: "E se eu Fosse Puta" (What if I Were a Whore) by Amara Moira.
And what if I was a whore? You, reader, tell me. It has a little of everything, but above all truth, the kind we like just under the rug, well hidden, the day-to-day on the street, the bargain, the bed, the man after enjoying sex.
Amara sees herself in drag and together she discovers the life that would follow from then on, a whore wherever she went, whether to spit or to discreetly ask the price ("everything in secrecy, I'm married, you know?"). A body that has no place, a body that made itself in spite of rules and norms, a body that lent itself to the shadow, that was me and I didn't make sense, I didn't even know where I wanted to go. Who understood me? This book is about choosing that doesn't make sense, this book is about looking for whys. What if I was a whore? What if I were you?
2016,
Amara Moira,
Brazil,
Portuguese,
