“MA: Eu. Mulher. Trans” by Marcela Bosa is not simply a memoir about transition, it is an intimate, humorous, and often disarmingly honest journey into the life of a woman who always existed, even when the mirror insisted on telling a different story. Marcela was always Marcela, yet until the age of thirty-one, what she saw reflected back at her did not match who she was inside. The book is born from the decision to stop negotiating with herself and to finally become who she truly was, a decision that leads her through a path that is far from easy or consistently joyful, but deeply transformative.
With a blend of irreverence, logic, and undeniable charisma, Marcela narrates her story as if she were sitting across from the reader at a café, inviting us to know her not as a concept or a headline, but as a person. She introduces us to her family, to friends who appeared and sometimes disappeared along the way, and to the rigid social structures that try to keep people neatly confined. The book makes it painfully clear how difficult it is to escape those invisible restraints, and at the same time how profoundly rewarding that escape can be.
