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: "Construccions identitàries: Work in progress" (Identity constructions: Work in progress) by Mar Capilla Llop.
Identity constructions. Work in progress collects the experience of many people who, like the author herself, the photographer Mar C. Llop, decide to take the path towards the trans* experience.
The project captures the body transformation processes experienced by transgender people, shows the people and families involved, and also the secrecy that often accompanies cross-dressing or transvestism. A project that, from within the trans* community, with respect and creativity, collects snapshots of the bodies, but also texts of the thoughts and feelings of more than seventy people. The book is organized around four chapters: «Concepts», «People», «Links» and «EnTràsit». Paths for all tastes, no single recipe for anyone, but, yes, many positive references.
2017,
Catalan,
Mar Capilla Llop,
"Aigua dolça" is the Catalan language edition of "Freshwater" by Akwaeke Emezi.
I liked Gina Maya's review a lot, so let me quote her: "Transgender narrative this may be, but it's far removed from Western, U.S.-based definitions in spite of its primary location in the U.S. The story follows the young life of Ada, a Nigerian child who travels to America to study, but her whole life involves psychical interaction with the indigenous spirits who vie for control of her. Is Ada Ogbanje too?
By the end, she appears to embrace this self-conception as an offspring of the Universal Creator Ala, visualized as cosmic python – the source of the spring from which all freshwater comes from its mouth. Yet Ada for almost the novel's entirety is also the human, engaged in an uneasy relationship with otherworldly spirits who inhabit her mind, visualized in turn as a room of marble, perhaps not unlike the Kaaba of Mecca. The most powerful, possessive, and controlling of the spirits is Asughara, occasionally presented as Ada's pernicious alpha. At times, Asughara blocks out Ada from consciousness, either to protect or punish Ada."
2020,
Akwaeke Emezi,
Catalan,
