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: "Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela" by Marcia Ochoa.
"Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses).
Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle, gender and sexuality, race and class, and self-fashioning and identity in Venezuela.
Beauty pageants play an outsized role in Venezuela. The country has won more international beauty contests than any other. The femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies, clothing and makeup styles, and postures and gestures of this national femininity, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity."
2014,
English,
Marcia Ochoa,
Venezuela,
Original title: "Ich habe viel geliebt: Das rastlose Leben einer transsexuellen Tänzerin" (I've Loved Much: The Restless Life of a Transsexual Dancer) by Verena Mühlberger and Jaquelin G.
According to Anne, the autobiography was written very competently and sensitively by the publicist Verena Mühlberger on the basis of lengthy conversations with Jaquelin.
Jaquelin was born as a boy in Venezuela. She has worked most of her life in nightclubs, first in her home country, then later in Spain, Italy, and finally in Switzerland. Due to her background and circumstances, she had no choice but to live as a barmaid and prostitute in order to be a woman.
1999,
German,
Jaquelin G,
Switzerland,
Venezuela,
Verena Mühlberger,
