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: "I travestiti: fotografie a colori" (Transvestites: color photographs) by Lisetta Carmi.
'Elena', by day rude crane operator at Italsider, red stiletto heels at night in Piazzetta del Fregoso. 'La Morena', during the day Mario the greengrocer, at night undecided whether to lure customers or become a nun. 'Dalida' instead sold candy during the day, at night she dreamed of the scalpel to finally marry her man.
Then 'the Gitana', with a physique already a bit undone, was said to have been the lover of De Pisis, who wanted at all costs to end up on the cover, and succeeded, laughing and shirtless.
None of them is there anymore, flashes of their lives remain in the most beautiful and cursed photographic book of the seventies, The transvestites of Lisetta Carmi.
2022,
Italian,
Lisetta Carmi,
Original title: "I travestiti" (The transvestites) by Lisetta Carmi, (Rome, Essedi, 1972).
This is a photographic book with about 150 black and white shots on a phenomenon that – at the beginning of the 70s – did not fail to cause a sensation, gender identity. The volume was originally equipped with a paper dust jacket (now very rare) to hide from view a cover that for the time was considered particularly scandalous.
The photos were shot in Genoa from 1965 to the early 1970s. It is an intimate and deeply sensitive meditation on sexual identity. Lisetta Carmi was the first professional artist to photograph the transgender community.
1972,
Italian,
Lisetta Carmi,
