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.

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Showing posts with label Carlota Juncosa. Show all posts
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Carlota Juncosa - Carmen de Mairena: Una biografía

Original title: "Carmen de Mairena. Una biografía" (Carmen de Mairena: Biography)

Carmen de Mairena is much more than what we know about her. She is a woman who fought to be a woman. Woman of neighborhood and street, a television star, a friend of friends who cheat on her, an emblem of the other Barcelona, a person of flesh and blood who laughs (less and less) and suffers (more and more).

The young artist Carlota Juncosa shared almost a year with Carmen de Mairena. From that strange friendship emerged an illustrated biography, as contradictory and unique as its protagonist.

When Carlota Juncosa tells her that she is going to write a book about her, Carmen de Mairena responds with courtly indifference. She doesn't care about books, she cares. Nor does she know too well what sense, what function a book plays. Not a wonderful book like Carlota Juncosa's.

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