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: "Chi ha paura della Muccassassina? Il mio mondo in discoteca e viceversa" (Who's afraid of the Muccassassina? My world at the disco and vice versa)
'Who is Vladimir Luxuria? Who was she before being a member of parliament? Where did she start her battles for equality, freedom, and the recognition of rights? From the stage of the Muccassassina, lesbian-gay-trans party event and disco - as if it were a gigantic magnifying glass on the world - Vladimir Luxuria tells us about the submerged yet irrepressible world of diversity, of other beauty, of a world that is, however, close to us.
And from that stage - as if it were, this time, a mirror - Vladimir Luxuria tells himself as a stroboscopic ray of vitality, civil commitment, and freedom. In the wake of Pier Vittorio Tondelli's "Postmodern Weekend", Vladimir Luxuria describes the inside and outside of the disco as "the stage used to be scratched by the heels of a drag queen or to scream our animalism, our pride, our pacifism".'
2007,
Italian,
Vladimir Luxuria,
Original title: "Il coraggio di essere una farfalla" (The courage to be a butterfly) by Vladimir Luxuria and Stefano Genovese
Luxuria casts her "trans gaze" on what she calls the great "transgenic" issues of our time.
"You'll be trans too! We all pass through this world, we are just passing through. We are born, we die, and perhaps we are reincarnated... Who knows.
The only thing that is certain is that we are not immortal and that thing we call life is nothing but a transit enclosed in the time of a dream."
"It takes more courage to be a butterfly than to flaunt the virility of a gorilla."
Few have the courage to wear "their own dress", not caring about the opinion of others. With a lucid, intelligent, and light-hearted look at the world, Vladimir Luxuria did so after a long intellectual, spiritual and social commitment journey. Television personality in the talk shows of costume and politics, former parliamentarian, columnist of La Repubblica, and animator of the Gay Village in Rome, Luxuria throws her "trans gaze" on what she calls the great "transgenic" issues of our time: power, religion, sex, art, and love.
2017,
Italian,
Stefano Genovese,
Vladimir Luxuria,
