A random collection of over 1994 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: "Opowieści różnej treści: Osiemnaście miesięcy z życia Lukrecji" (Stories of different content. Eighteen months from the life of Lucrezia) by Lukrecja Kowalska.
The publication is another book by Lukrecja Kowalska, a Polish transgender rights activist, and the founder and chairwoman of the Acceptance Foundation, which provides support to the local transgender community.
It is a richly illustrated collection of short stories, which is a continuation of the fate of the heroine of the autobiography "Lucrezia in the body of Krzysiek", showing her in various situations of everyday life.
2016,
Lukrecja Kowalska,
Polish,
Original title: "Lukrecja w ciele Krzyśka" (Lucretia in Krzysiek's body) by Lukrecja Kowalska.
Imagine waking up one day and realizing that the person in the mirror has never truly been you. The reflection looks familiar, it wears your name, it carries your history, but something about it has always felt borrowed, like a costume that does not quite fit. For Lukrecja Kowalska, this quiet dissonance began in childhood, when she slipped into her mother’s lingerie not as a game but as a way to touch, if only for a moment, the truth buried inside her. Decades later, after forty-two years of living as Krzysztof, she would finally give that truth a voice in her book Lukrecja w ciele Krzyśka.
This is not a simple autobiography. It is a journey through silence, fear, discovery, and ultimately liberation. Kowalska takes her readers by the hand and leads them into the hidden corridors of a life divided between expectation and authenticity. She does not write as someone who has neatly closed one chapter and opened another, but as a woman who invites us to witness the messy, painful, yet luminous process of becoming herself. In her story the universal question “Who am I?” transforms into a matter of survival, a question with the power to break marriages, uproot careers, and alter family bonds, but also a question that carries the possibility of rebirth.
2016,
Lukrecja Kowalska,
Polish,
