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: "Persone transessuali a Cuba" (Transsexual people in Cuba) by Mariela Castro Espin.
The book addresses a crucial belief that all forms of discrimination have the same origin, but are expressed in different ways according to the specific socio-historical contexts. "Transsexual People in Cuba" highlights how exploitative economic relationships and processes of a cultural nature reproduce and recreate values, perceptions, representations, stigmas, and stereotypes.
The book presents how the socialist experience has inherited codes that contradict actions towards emancipation in the field of justice and social equity because various studies testify that iniquity continues to reproduce itself in contexts associated with skin colour, the condition of women, generations, and territories of residence.
2019,
Cuba,
Italian,
Mariela Castro Espin,
"For more than 30 years, New York based photographer and painter Mariette Pathy Allen has been documenting transgender culture worldwide; in 2004 she won the Lambda Literary Award for her monograph The Gender Frontier.
In her new publication, TransCuba, Allen focuses on the transgender community of Cuba, especially its growing visibility and acceptance in a country whose government is transitioning into a more relaxed model of communism under Raúl Castro’s presidency. This publication therefore records a cultural watershed within Cuba.
In addition to color photographs and interviews by Allen, the book also includes a contribution from Raúl Castro’s daughter, Mariela Castro, who is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana. In 2005, Castro proposed a project, which became law three years later, to allow transgender individuals to receive sex reassignment surgery and change their legal gender."
2014,
Cuba,
English,
Mariette Pathy Allen,
