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: "Memorias, identidades y experiencias trans: (In)visibilidades entre Argentina y España" (Memories, identities and trans experiences: (In)visibilities between Argentina and Spain) by Jorge Luis Peralta and Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez.
"Visible but, at the same time, invisible: this paradoxical condition has marked and continues to mark the existence of trans people. Consequently, the reconstruction of possible genealogies comes up against a certain void in terms of representations, especially if they are first-person accounts, not mediated by an "other" alien to the social and sexual reality of transvestites, transsexuals and transgenders.
This book aims to offer an interdisciplinary look at the trans universe in Argentina and Spain from the 1960s to the beginning of this millennium. The aim is to contribute to the rescue and recovery of voices and experiences, both through textual and sociological analysis or historiographical reconstruction, as well as testimonies that illuminate, in the first person, the various itineraries of transvestism, transsexuality, and transgenderism.
2015,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Kim Pérez,
Lohana Berkins,
Naty Menstrual,
Spain,
Spanish,
Original title: "Soy una tonta por quererte" (I'm a fool for loving you) by Camila Sosa Villada.
"In the middle of the 90s, a woman earns her living as a surrogate bride for gay men. In a Harlem smoking room, a Latina transvestite becomes intimately acquainted with none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex and in return get their comeuppance. Nuns, grandmothers, children and dogs are never what they seem... The nine stories that make up this book are inhabited by quirky and deeply human characters who confront an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves.
Soy una tonta por quererte confirms that Camila Sosa Villada is one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature. Owner of a dazzling and daring imagination, she is capable of both speaking the language of a victim of the Mexican Inquisition and of building a dystopian universe where transvestite existence takes its revenge. Owner of a unique style, Sosa crosses the boundaries between reality and magic in these tales, honoring the oral tradition with unparalleled ease and solidity."
2022,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Spanish,
"The Queens of Sarmiento Park" is the UK edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.
From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night. She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.
2022,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
English,
"Im Park der prächtigen Schwestern" (In the Park of the Magnificent Sisters) is the German language edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.
From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night. She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.
2021,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
German,
"Nattdjur" (Nocturnal animal) is the Swedish language edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.
From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night. She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.
2021,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Swedish,
Original title: "Tesis sobre una domesticación" (Thesis on a domestication) by Camila Sosa Villada.
A trans actress – who could not be a mother – adopts a six-year-old boy with her husband, a homosexual lawyer. That HIV-positive boy – who did not know his biological father and whose mother committed suicide when she discovered that she infected him with AIDS – was raised by the maternal grandparents, until the grandfather killed his wife and then committed suicide.
The book lays bare the fragility of the bonds and the "invisible" agreements, not exempt from violence, that are woven around marriage and couples. The writer and actress from Cordoba raises questions about motherhood, fatherhood and orphanhood with an unlimited curiosity to try to account for the abyss between desires and experiences, between what is imagined or dreamed and what happens in the family back room. The apparent initial happiness of "life resolved" explodes. "Her legs, her heart, her transvestism, her family, everything weighs on her then as she had never weighed on. And being an orphan too," warns the narrator.
2019,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Spanish,
"Loše djevojke" (Bad Girls) is the Croatian language edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.
From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night. She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.
2020,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Croatian,
"Bad Girls" is the US edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.
From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night.
She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.
2022,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
English,
"Les Vilaines" (The Bad Ones) is the French language edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.
From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night. She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.
2021,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
French,
Original title: "La novia de Sandro" (Sandro's girlfriend) by Camila Sosa Villada.
Sandro's bride, the hopeless lover, the bottomless hole where hope disappears, the passage to the edge of the precipice, the one entrusted to the Virgin of the Transvestites, the one who knows men because she was one of them, comes to rescue the essence of poetry: to put her finger on the wound, to sing the wound of love or of the times, make us feel beautiful or pathetic (that is what we are), remove the patina that makes us respectable so that we shine at last in the face of some true fire, of those who burn and shine, of those who reduce us to ashes and entrust us to the last truth of the wind.
The one who wants to ask for forgiveness, the one who wants to cure his evil of loneliness or company, conjure his particular evil or his evil of all, the one who wants like Vallejo to show the bad his little bit of good and vice versa, the one who does not want to die of thirst or blindness without finding the puddle in which to drink or in which to look. Celebrate this book: because poetry dries up if every now and then a Camila Sosa Villada does not appear to put words back into circulation. Yes. Poetry dries up. As Córdoba was impoverished until Camila Sosa Villada arrived from Mina Clavero with her Carnes tolendas, to revitalize us, deepen us, show us the light and the shadow, and be pointed out as beautiful and miserable. - Jorge Marzetti
2015,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Spanish,
"Slemme piker" (Bad Girls) is the Norwegian language edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.
From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night. She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.
2020,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Norwegian,
"Le cattive" (The Bad Ones) is the Italian language edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.
From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night. She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.
2021,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Italian,
"O parque das irmãs magníficas" (The Park of the Magnificent Sisters) is the Portuguese language edition of "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) published in Argentina in 2019 by Camila Sosa Villada.
From the Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada, a book of love and affection: when we finish the last page, we want the whole world to read it too! When she arrived in the city of Córdoba to study at the university, Argentine author Camila Sosa Villada decided to go to Parque Sarmiento during the night. She was scared to death, thinking that the brutal verdict she had heard from her father could come to fruition at any moment: "One day they will knock on this door to warn me that they found you dead, thrown into a ditch." For him, this was the only possible destination for a boy who dressed as a woman.
2019,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Portuguese,
Original title: "Las malas" (The Bad Girls) by Camila Sosa Villada.
"When she arrived in Córdoba to study at the university, Camila Sosa Villada went one night, scared to death, to spy on the transvestites in Parque Sarmiento and found her first place of belonging in the world.
The Bad Ones is a rite of passage, a fairy tale and a horror story, a group portrait, an explosive manifesto, a guided tour of the author's imagination and a chronicle different from all of the rest. The two trans facets that most repel and terrify the well-thought-out society converge in the DNA of this book: transvestite fury and the celebration of being a transvestite. Marguerite Duras, Wislawa Szymborska, and Carson McCullers coexist in her literary voice."
2019,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Spanish,
Original title: "El viaje inútil: Trans/escritura" (The futile journey: Trans/write) by Camila Sosa Villada.
A very old memory. The first thing I write in my life is my male name. I learn a small part of myself. The useless journey starts announcing anxieties and wonders.
With unusual intensity and rage, Camila Sosa Villada, author of The bad, rehearses in an autobiographical key the story of a drift that goes from childhood to the subsequent exercise of prostitution, the transition from transvestism to the theater, and the clash with writing as a place of possibility and danger, of expression of vitality and erasure. The futile journey is a one-way trip.
"I write, in the way, as alcoholic are my words as my dad was and as helpless and unstable as my mother was." Camila Sosa Villada.
2021,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Spanish,
