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.
Full title: "Italian Trans Geographies" by Danila Cannamela, Marzia Mauriello, and Summer Minerva.
"To my knowledge, this collection is absolutely unique-and, for that reason, absolutely vital. Over and over again, I was impressed with how smart it is. Besides being accessible to audiences both inside and outside of the academy, the movement across gender studies, anthropology, history, and political activism is also useful. I learned a lot by reading this anthology, and it really challenged me to think about the relationship between my own Sicilian American identity, gender, and sexuality, and the possibilities they might present for future projects and encounters, both scholarly and personal." - John Champagne, author of Queer Ventennio: Italian Fascism, Homoerotic Art, and the Nonmodern in the Modern
2023,
Danila Cannamela,
English,
Helena Velena,
Italy,
Marzia Mauriello,
Porpora Marcasciano,
Romina Cecconi,
Summer Minerva,
Original title: "Io, la "Romanina": perchè sono diventato dolonna" (Me, the "Romanina": why I became a woman) by Romina Cecconi.
The book is a document written by Romina Cecconi, born in 1941, one of the pioneers of the Italian transgender community. The story is presented with remarkable intelligence and verve. It is the experience of a transgender woman. One is struck by the willpower, by the humanity always intact, by the sense of humor of this person who was persecuted by others and, like many, had no choice but to live from prostitution.
Remarkable is the description of the "deep province", that culturally backward Italietta that Cecconi knows when she is sent to exile by the police for her "scandalous" behavior. This is also a rare testimony, because it is first-hand, of the sending of a transgender person into confinement, a common practice during fascism, but still in force for many decades after its fall. The author mentioned at the end of the autobiography her intention to get married. Well, she really did it, with a Greek boy named Mantakas, arousing, at the time, a lot of publicity in the media.
1976,
Italian,
Romina Cecconi,
