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: "Dove non siamo stati" (Where we haven't been) by Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto.
The transition, which in the verses of "Minimal Pain" is sexual, becomes here an indispensable existential datum to be able to move forward. A poem of ghosts and farewells, of abandoned houses, of realities kept only in the memory of those who remain, in the games left by children in the courtyards of childhood.
A sense of conclusion pervades her tight verses, the definitive one that always precedes change. An end that must be investigated in the most painful moments, before giving way to the new reality that knocks on the doors. A universal and authentic poetic result, in which personal experience is transfigured to welcome the experience of each one, questioning a void in which, on closer inspection, we have always been. With a preface by Roberta Dapunt and a critical note by Alberto Bertoni.
2020,
Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto,
Italian,
Original title: "Dolore minimo" (Minimal pain) by Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto.
The "minimal pain" of the title expresses the complex transsexual condition pronounced with great poetic power, aimed at breaking the wall of silent cultural taboo. The young author tells her luminous rebirth with verses, delicate and very deep at the same time, which made Dacia Maraini and Alessandro Fo talk about a literary phenomenon.
"Minimal pain" is not the manifesto of those who have experienced, growing up, "a rebellious detachment from the flesh, / a fratricidal struggle between spirit / and skin." It is the viaticum of anyone who wants to savor a powerful poem that delicately offers the reader a paradigm to orient himself in the infinite, wonderful confusion of existence.
2018,
Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto,
Italian,
