The Queens Of Sarmiento Park

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Y para eso han tenido que aprender a las malas a defenderse y a sobrevivir en un ambiente que siempre ha sido hostil con la sola idea de su existencia y su identidad, pero, por otro lado, también representan a aquellos animales que son abandonados y dejados a su suerte, por lo que al final terminan teniendo esas características animales para mostrar su lado huraño, salvaje y siempre a la defensiva pero también esa faceta necesitada de amor y de un hogar al que nunca han pertenecido. From a life reminiscent of a Pedro Almodóvar film, Camila Sosa Villada has drawn an incredible piece of literature Por ende, me parece un acierto utilizar la animalidad en ellas porque presenciamos lo que son desde el comienzo: las perras, las lobas, las gatas, las bestias, e incluso hay una que es pájaro, en una clara representación de que quieren ser libres de todo el mal y el daño que arremeten contra ellas y sin embargo les es imposible escapar del odio y el ostracismo social. Por eso, no es extraño que las mujeres trans del parque sean una manada porque se cuidan entre ellas, se protegen y se dan toda la seguridad que no reciben en el afuera, ni de sus clientes a los que les cobran favores sexuales ni de absolutamente nadie. Maria, una mujer muda que se vuelve pájaro. Natalí, la séptima hija nacida varón, que en las noches de luna llena se convierte en lobo. La Machi, una curandera que sana con magia oriunda de Brasil. Los hombres decapitados, hombres que perdieron su cabeza en guerras y ahora piensan con el cuerpo y la tía Encarna, encarnando la madre de todos estos seres míticos.

Croatian: Loše djevojke. Translated by Nikolina Židek. Zagreb: Udruga Domino. 2020. ISBN 9789537730277. Every so often, a slim book absolutely clobbers you with its exuberance and beauty - for me, this was that book' Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby Gómez, Andrés (March 13, 2021). "Camila Sosa: "El feminismo hoy también es un espacio de poder" ". La Tercera (in Spanish) . Retrieved June 14, 2021. A richly imaginative, surreal and deeply moving novel from Argentina about a group of travesti sex workers who adopt a baby boy

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For Camila, it is a refuge, and the travesti who gather there are like family. At night they head out to Sarmiento Park to earn money. They stand together in the cold, sharing stories and a hip flask of whiskey, waiting for a car to slow down. A beautifully written and expertly translated work of autofiction ... Sosa Villada's tales of headless horsemen and women who turn into birds are a stunning meditation on gender, our bodies and the ties that bind Opening with a hard slap across the yet to be decolonised arrogant face of Euro centric pathologizing terminology and politicisation of gender diverse bodes which is also a determined staking of ground, and the right to self-definition, the book is a simple tale, of family found, of people gravitating to a home which allows them to flourish, to new members of the family and old ones leaving and how it’s held together by the strength, love and dreams of a matriarchal Kween Aunty Encarna who loves unconditionally but fiercely protects what she fosters. La vita della casa di Zia Encarna è rivoluzionata dall'arrivo de Lo Splendore degli Occhi, un neonato abbandonato che la donna strappa ai rovi per farlo suo: le scene in cui la donna prova ad allattarlo sono commoventi. Sarmiento Park is as an actual park in Argentina. In this work the author often refers to her characters by the Latin American term travesti, referring to the word ‘transgender’ as a construct of Northern academia. Travesti, she states in the author notes at the beginning, is an ancient word that speaks more honestly of how transgender people are viewed by society generally and one, though an insult, Latin American travesti claim as their own.

Camila Sosa Villada suma otro premio: ahora el Grand Prix de l'Héroïne de Francia". Clarín (in Spanish). June 10, 2021 . Retrieved June 14, 2021. Fun, tragic, political and full of marvel ... It will break your heart and at the same time make you want to laugh and dance' Mariana Enriquez

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Confidavo molto sull’irruenza poetica di questo romanzo di Camila Sosa Villada e, devo dire, ha superato ampiamente qualsiasi mia previsione. D’altronde, non mi sorprende: se chi scrive riesce a maturare uno stile personale forte e originale e finisce con l’avere anche molto di cui parlare, sia esso materiale autobiografico o meno, il risultato non può essere che un romanzo ben confezionato. Events, circumstances, characters and experiences described in two of the three distinct and separate themes are held together by the third: the biographical contentment which acts like string, binding all three separate components into an internally consistent whole. A beautiful novel, moving, disturbing, raw and honest. In skilfully rendered language, charged with poetic energy, it takes us deep into the world of trans prostitution and explores the violent and tender bonds that unite the women who inhabit it