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: "Sex-Schimbare. Putere. Identitate" (Sex - Change. Power. Identity) by Daria Jane.
The first book in Romania that follows the social, medical, and legal aspects of the male-to-female transition. A book that deals with sexuality in all its forms, talking about feminism, monogamy, and fluidity.
Daria Bulzan, also known as Daria Jane, was born Darius Bulzan on June 15, 1998, in Romania. She is a celebrity YouTube star. She studied marketing at the University of Bucharest. Before she came out as a transgender woman at the age of 16, still as a boy, she took part in the Romanian version of Got Talent, a British talent show TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCOtv company. She impressed the talent show jury with her contortionist show, a dance full of twists and bends and unnatural positions.
2021,
Daria Bulzan,
Daria Jane,
Romanian,
Full title: "Sex Work Is Work, O Poveste Transgen" by Antonella Lerca Duda.
"Having spent 11 years in Italy, I could see that trans women are not represented in Romania, so I decided to come back to my home country and fight for the rights of my trans sisters and brothers. Since then I have been trying to be visible and vocal everywhere in Romania, supporting the transgender Roma community and sex workers."
"Activism is only one chapter of my life. In the book, I reveal everything by presenting my relationship with my family, schoolmates, loved ones, and co-workers in Italy. It is a story about being a migrant worker, about building solidarity in a world of economic inequality, transphobia, and racism. It is the story of my gender transition, which coincides with the transition of Romania to capitalism and phobias related to class, race, and gender."
2020,
Antonella Lerca Duda,
Romanian,
"Daneza" is the Romanian language edition of The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff.
Having gender reassignment surgery in the 1930s was an unusual and sensational affair, and the man who took the step to do so was the Danish painter Einar Mogens Andreas Wegener, who after the operation took the name of Lili Elbe.
The operation took place at the Institute for Sexology in Berlin, where the male organs were removed. The surgery was performed by Felix Abraham at the recommendation of Magnus Hirschfeld.
Einar Wegener was married to the beautiful, celebrated artist Gerda Wegener. They lived in a highly unusual marriage. Their life fate is told in this book, which is a fiction novel based on authentic events and diary entries from Einar Wegener.
2015,
David Ebershoff,
Lili Elbe,
Romanian,
"Apă dulce" is the Romanian language edition of "Freshwater" by Akwaeke Emezi.
I liked Gina Maya's review a lot, so let me quote her: "Transgender narrative this may be, but it's far removed from Western, U.S.-based definitions in spite of its primary location in the U.S. The story follows the young life of Ada, a Nigerian child who travels to America to study, but her whole life involves psychical interaction with the indigenous spirits who vie for control of her. Is Ada Ogbanje too?
By the end, she appears to embrace this self-conception as an offspring of the Universal Creator Ala, visualized as cosmic python – the source of the spring from which all freshwater comes from its mouth. Yet Ada for almost the novel's entirety is also the human, engaged in an uneasy relationship with otherworldly spirits who inhabit her mind, visualized in turn as a room of marble, perhaps not unlike the Kaaba of Mecca. The most powerful, possessive, and controlling of the spirits is Asughara, occasionally presented as Ada's pernicious alpha. At times, Asughara blocks out Ada from consciousness, either to protect or punish Ada."
2019,
Akwaeke Emezi,
Nigeria,
Romanian,
