Carlos Sanzol’s book Hembra. Cris Miró. Vivir y morir en un país de machos is a deeply researched and emotionally charged portrait of one of Argentina’s most iconic and misunderstood figures. Published by Milena Caserola, it traces the dazzling rise and tragic fall of Cris Miró, the country’s first transgender vedette, who illuminated Buenos Aires’s theater stages in the 1990s while challenging a culture steeped in machismo and hypocrisy. The author, a journalist and scholar with a background in Social Communication and Journalism, uses his expertise to reconstruct not only the personal story of a woman who dared to exist authentically but also the collective history of a society struggling with its own identity.
Cris Miró’s life is the central thread in a tapestry woven with contradictions. She was both adored and condemned, celebrated and judged. Her story begins in Belgrano, Buenos Aires, where she was born on September 16, 1965. From an early age, she stood out for her femininity, her attraction to the world of performance, and her instinctive rejection of traditional gender roles. Sanzol recounts how her father and brother struggled to understand her, while her mother became her first ally. This early domestic tension mirrored the conflict that would later define her public life: a permanent negotiation between visibility and rejection, admiration and exclusion.
