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: "TranSER: Experiencias de vida de mujeres en tránsitos de género en Colombia" (TranSER: Life Experiences of Women in Gender Transitions in Colombia) by Paula Andrea Hoyos-Hernández and Laura Juliana Valderrama Orbegozo.
TranSER: life experiences of women in gender transitions in Colombia, allows us to delve into the experiences of 139 women from Cali, Calarcá, Armenia, Jamundí, Bogotá, Bucaramanga and Cartagena, throughout their lives and their different processes of gender transitions. It gives an account of the different human dimensions that contribute to the experience of sexuality and human life, such as the family, the couple, the occupation, integral health, the socio-cultural, the care and the right to health.
2021,
Colombia,
Laura Juliana Valderrama Orbegozo,
Paula Andrea Hoyos-Hernández,
Spanish,
Original title: "En el camino de la feminización: Estudio de las prácticas de intervención corporal de travestis del área de influencia del Hospital Santa Clara E.S.E. de Bogotá, Colombia" (On the road to feminization: A study of the body intervention practices of transvestites in the area of influence of the Santa Clara E.S.E. Hospital in Bogotá, Colombia) by María Mercedes Lafaurie Villamil.
Study on the practices of corporal intervention with a view to the feminization of a group of transvestites located in the tolerance zone of downtown Bogotá, between the towns of Los Mártires and Santa Fe. The reader will find a rigorous description of the artisanal techniques used by these people to acquire a feminine appearance; the health risks involved in such practices; of the imaginaries and conceptions that drive them, and of the socio-cultural contexts to which the subjects addressed belong.
2014,
Colombia,
María Mercedes Lafaurie Villamil,
Spanish,
Original title: "Devenir trans: Relatos biográficos del tercer sexo en Popayán" (Trans Becoming: Biographical Accounts of the Third Sex in Popayán) by Yinna Ortiz Ordoñez.
Talking about females with penises seems more like a paradox than the experience of a series of people who experience corporalities and subjectivities on the frontiers of 'normality'. This book proposes a reflection on trans experiences, which is not situated in the reductionist rhetoric of trans as a linear and univocal change from man to woman or vice versa, but rather thinks about the tensions and paradoxes of much more complex, dynamic and unfinished processes in the ways of experiencing 'sex', gender and corporeality.
Through a biographical approach, the book presents a life story accompanied by other experiences that allow access to intimate and profound elements about these transitions, but also to structural factors of social and gender norms.
This book is an invitation to imagine in other ways, to denaturalize and disrupt the discourses that tie bodies to rigid ways of being and being in the world, but also to look sharply at the tensions posed by trans subjectivities.
2019,
Colombia,
Spanish,
Yinna Ortiz Ordoñez,
Original title: "El futuro es sin género: Historias trans de Colombia, Chile y Argentina" (The Future is Genderless: Trans Stories from Colombia, Chile, and Argentina) by Sandra Sanchez Lopez.
The book tells the stories of trans people from three places in Latin America: Colombia, Argentina, and Chile. In addition to reports, interviews, and chronicles, this book presents reflections on an inclusive journalistic profession, in which we make the political commitment of communication more transparent and leave behind fears and prejudices in the face of the encounters between journalism and activism.
Focused on trans lives and voices, this set of contributions suggests that the public conversation is enriched when we stop dodging the dilemmas that we still have to solve as a society, while strong citizens, with determination, carry forward their struggles.
2021,
Argentina,
Chile,
Colombia,
Sandra Sanchez Lopez,
Spanish,
Original title: "Brigitte Baptiste: un homenaje ilustrado" (Brigitte Baptiste: an illustrated tribute) by Brigitte Baptiste.
"Brigitte Baptiste. Illustrated story. A tribute to the great ecologist and defender of the environment. The life and work of Brigitte Baptiste, as well as her vision of science and the world, converge in this graphic journey, which is nothing more than an emotional illustrated tribute."
Brigitte Baptiste is a prominent figure in both the scientific and transgender communities. Born Luis Guillermo Baptiste1, she is a Colombian cultural landscape ecologist and an expert on environmental issues and biodiversity in Colombia1. She has served as the director of the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute and is currently the director of Universidad Ean.
2019,
Brigitte Baptiste,
Colombia,
Spanish,
Original title: "Valientas: nuestra historia" (Brave: Our Story) by Diego Fernando Montoya-Bermúdez.
In this album you will find the story of Colombian women with personalities as diverse as the hues of the sea. Brave women, who have learned to recognize their true essence and have decided to fight to be faithful to them. From their privacy they open the door to their life and tell us a little about their journey.
This expanded photographic album is the result of co-creation practices between women from the trans community, students and professors of Communication and Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali. As the core work of the transmedia intertextual system, it brings together the stories of nineteen women from different municipalities in Colombia.
2022,
Colombia,
Diego Fernando Montoya-Bermúdez,
Spanish,
Original title: "Cuerpos en resistencia: experiencias trans en ciudad de México y Bogotá" (Bodies in resistance: trans experiences in Mexico City and Bogotá) by Manuel Roberto Escobar Cajamarca.
The body is mainly a scenario of power, which becomes a multiplicity of tensions and resistances subscribed to specific contexts. In particular, this work deals with the bodies of people who move through gender, and the political dimension of these experiences in Latin America, in two of its main cities: Mexico City and Bogotá.
The importance of these subjectivities that strive for what a body can be in our contexts, has to do with the fact that the body goes beyond individual and social expression and constitutes a node of identity, with which the construction of the body allows us to specify our own sameness, difference, as well as perceive it in the other.
2016,
Colombia,
Manuel Roberto Escobar Cajamarca,
Mexico,
Spanish,
