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: "TRANScestors Navigating LGBTQ+ Aging, Illness and End of Life Decisions: Generations of Hope" by Jude Patton and Margot Wilson.
"This volume (and the ones that follow) have been in the works for some time. What finally emerges after many months of assiduous advertising, recruiting, editing, and organizing is a volume of intimate, nuanced, and heartfelt stories that reflect the wide diversity in the ways in which trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people have come to recognize, signify, embody, and celebrate their difference as their authentic selves. Moreover, with an increasing emphasis on the experiences of trans youth, elders constitute a routinely overlooked, disregarded, and/or silenced segment of the community."
2020,
Dallas Denny,
English,
Jude Patton,
Margot Wilson,
Rosalyne Blumenstein,
"This is a true story about a teenage runaway, her contact with suicide, gender identity issues, drug addiction, and the sex industry.
This is also the anecdote of how recovery opens the door to a healing process and alters the subjugators, one day at a time."
In 20013, I interviewed Rosalyne and asked her about what inspired her to write the memoir: "Ego, f*!* Ego! There is a song that I want to be played at my memorial when I'm gone… No Regrets, by Edith Piaff, but in French of course. So you think I have culture☺.
However, I have some regrets about writing this book. I was in my angry black woman phase. (in my role as a clinical educator I use the term “angry black woman” but also state why it is perfectly normal for a black woman to be angry because of our societal systematic behaviors). I use the term not as a pathology but as an experience, one has when the ecosystem surrounding you is just coming at you from too many directions."
2003,
English,
Rosalyne Blumenstein,
USA,
