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: "Memorias, identidades y experiencias trans: (In)visibilidades entre Argentina y España" (Memories, identities and trans experiences: (In)visibilities between Argentina and Spain) by Jorge Luis Peralta and Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez.
"Visible but, at the same time, invisible: this paradoxical condition has marked and continues to mark the existence of trans people. Consequently, the reconstruction of possible genealogies comes up against a certain void in terms of representations, especially if they are first-person accounts, not mediated by an "other" alien to the social and sexual reality of transvestites, transsexuals and transgenders.
This book aims to offer an interdisciplinary look at the trans universe in Argentina and Spain from the 1960s to the beginning of this millennium. The aim is to contribute to the rescue and recovery of voices and experiences, both through textual and sociological analysis or historiographical reconstruction, as well as testimonies that illuminate, in the first person, the various itineraries of transvestism, transsexuality, and transgenderism.
2015,
Argentina,
Camila Sosa Villada,
Kim Pérez,
Lohana Berkins,
Naty Menstrual,
Spain,
Spanish,
Original title: "La Berkins: Una combatiente de frontera" by Josefina Fernández.
The book is a unique biography of Lohana Berkins, a transgender activist and advocate of the rights of the LGBT community in Argentina and Latin America. She died on 5 February 2016, so she was not able to see her biography published.
Born in a small town in Salta, Lohana was expelled from the family home when she was very young and forced to practice prostitution to survive. She learned to walk on the border. At the end of the 80s, she settled in Buenos Aires and had to deal with ruffians, petty offenders, and the police. She fell in love and, fighting for the repeal of police edicts, became a unique leader whose main battle was the right to her own identity. She embraced feminism and was the first transgender woman in Argentina to get a job in accordance with the Labour code.
2020,
Argentina,
Josefina Fernández,
Lohana Berkins,
Spanish,
