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 Danièle Voldman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Danièle Voldman. Show all posts

Fabrice Virgili & Danièle Voldman - La garçonne et l’assassin

Original title: "La garçonne et l'assassin: Histoire de Louise et Paul, déserteur travesti, dans le Paris des Années Folles" (The Boy and the Assassin: The Story of Louise and Paul, Transvestite Deserter, in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties)

'Paris, 1911. Paul Grappe and Louise Landy love and marry. Then comes the war. Paul deserted, disguised himself as a woman so as not to be arrested, and, for ten years, in the eyes of all, lived with Louise under the identity of Suzanne Landgard. He drags his wife into multiple sex games and even gains a small notoriety by being one of the first women to skydive.

In 1925, with the amnesty, Suzanne became Paul again. For the couple, things then start to go wrong... From astonishing archives (photos, letters, diaries, court documents), Fabrice Virgili and Danièle Voldman tell the very curious - and tragic - story of Paul and Louise, a story that mixes the issues of war trauma, cross-dressing, homosexuality, gender disorders, virility, domestic violence, and the complexity of romantic feelings. '

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