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: "Grenzgänge: Sozialismus, aus der Froschperspektive betrachtet auch. Aus dem Leben eines real existierenden Taugenichts" (Crossing borders: Socialism, seen from the frog's perspective. From the life of a real existing good-for-nothing) by Judith Hodosi.
The title and subtitle describe the content of the book quite accurately. Embedded in a grotesquely disturbing post-reunification frame, the first-person narrator reports her life in the German Democratic Republic, seen from below. She clashes against her father, against her own gender, but most strongly against the narrow ideological boundaries of the GDR reality. And so she made early acquaintance with the omnipresent Stasi and faced juvenile detention officers and police. She succeeds in rising as a rock musician and changing gender, but always remains on the fringes of society, close to the crash. Even after the flight to the West and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, life remains turbulent.
1995,
German,
Judith Hodosi,
