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: "La Revolución de las Mariposas" (The Butterfly Revolution) by Alicia Ruiz, Las Mochas, Lucía Fuster Pravato, Marlene Wayar, Gabriela Mansilla, Karina Nazábal, Alan Otto Prieto, Sebastian Amaro, Alba Rueda, Say Sacayán, Dario Arias, Emiliano Litardo, and Paula Viturro.
"The Butterfly Revolution. Ten years after The Deed of the Proper Name. An investigation into the situation of the trans population in the City of Buenos Aires. It was developed jointly by the Gender and Sexual Diversity Program, the Divino Tesoro Foundation and the Mocha Celis Trans Popular High School. It seeks to warn about the need to continue with the design and implementation of policies that effectively contribute to the recognition of the trans community as subjects of rights."
2013,
Alan Otto Prieto,
Alicia Ruiz,
Argentina,
Gabriela Mansilla,
Karina Nazábal,
Las Mochas,
Lucía Fuster Pravato,
Marlene Wayar,
Sebastian Amaro,
Spanish,
"Io principessa. Storia di Luana, una bambina transgender" (I princess. Story of Luana, a transgender child) is the Italian language edition of "Yo nena, yo princesa: Luana, la niña que eligió su propio nombre" (Me baby, me princess: Luana, the girl who chose her own name) by Gabriela Mansilla.
On May 9, 2012, the Argentine National Congress passed a law on gender identity recognizing the right to identity of transvestites, transsexuals, and transgenders, indicating their female sex. A political-social revolution that has been intertwined with that of Manuel, the Argentine child, who became by law, at the age of six, the youngest transgender in the world with the name of Luana.
This is her story, told in an intimate personal diary, by her mother Gabriela Mansila.
2018,
Argentina,
Gabriela Mansilla,
Italian,
Original title: "Mariposas Libres" (Free Butterflies) by Gabriela Mansilla.
Luana was the first Argentine trans girl to obtain her ID card after the enactment of the Gender Identity Law, on May 9, 2012. It is a pioneering legislation and almost unique in the world because it contemplates the right to change registration for minors.
But it wasn't easy: it took her mother, Gabriela Mansilla, almost a year to get it. Since then, learning as she goes, Gabriela became a reference in the struggle for the rights of trans children in Argentina. She founded the organization Childhoods Free of Violence and Discrimination to help other families and wrote "Yo nena, yo princesa", where she told the story from the moment when Luana said her first words, at 18 months, until she got her ID. Now she publishes "Mariposas Libres" – also published by the National University of General Sarmiento – in which she tells how she follows the life of her daughter and, through her, of all trans children in Argentina.
2018,
Argentina,
Gabriela Mansilla,
Spanish,
"Original title: "Yo nena, yo princesa: Luana, la niña que eligió su propio nombre" (Me baby, me princess: Luana, the girl who chose her own name) by Gabriela Mansilla.
The book is an extraordinary testimony of a struggle for the recognition of difference and the right to own identity to be a little girl. This struggle ran the limits of knowledge and professional practices, and also of the policies that are deployed on children. It is a story that shows the inseparably subjective and political effects of any identity struggle.
This diary of Gabriela is, without a doubt, a story of inexhaustible love and struggle. But it is also an essay and a profound and extraordinary reflection on the prejudices and knowledge instituted, so often close to the ignorance and ignominy with which we face every day. A story in which challenge, perseverance, and a charming form of intelligence face the problems of everyday life, social ties, and our relationship with institutions.
2014,
Argentina,
Gabriela Mansilla,
Spanish,
