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Bad Girls
Bad Girls: A Novel | Camila Sosa Villada
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Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans womans tale about finding a community on the margins. In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Crdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds. When a cry comes from the dark, their leader, the 178-year-old Auntie Encarna, wades into the brambles to investigate and discovers a baby half dead from the cold. She quickly rallies the pack to save him, and they adopt the child into their fascinating surrogate family as they have so many other outcasts, including Camila. Sheltered in Auntie Encarnas fabled pink house, they find a partial escape from the everyday threats of disease and violence, at the hands of clients, cops, and boyfriends. Telling their storiesof a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, of a Headless Man who fled his countrys warsas well as her own journey from a toxic home in a small, poor town, Camila traces the life of this vibrant community throughout the 90s. Imbuing reality with the magic of a dark fairy tale, Bad Girls offers an intimate, nuanced portrait of trans coming-of-age that captures a universal sense of the strangeness of our bodies. It grips and entertains us while also challenging ideas about love, sexuality, gender, and identity.
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Singout
Bad Girls: A Novel | Camila Sosa Villada
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I didn't read every country in the Western Hemisphere, but did pretty well this year! Lots of new knowledge and insights! Thank you @BarbaraBB and @LibraryBelle for this year's #ReadingtheAmericas2023!

Librarybelle Wow! Impressive! Congratulations, and thanks for joining us!! 3mo
Bookwormjillk Nicely done! 3mo
BarbaraBB You did so good!! Thanks for joining!! 3mo
Singout And more books on my to-read list that I didn‘t get to! Going to send some recs to my former coworker who specialty was collaborating with organizations in Latin America for human rights and justice. 3mo
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Singout
Bad Girls: A Novel | Camila Sosa Villada
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This was excellent: a narrative of an emerging trans woman who becomes a sex trade worker and finds a community of others, led by a unbelievably older woman and adopting a baby boy. It really brings to life, the strength of the community, including both the love, and the pain That exist there as well as the phobias that tried to crush sex work and trans people.
#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Argentina

BarbaraBB This sounds good! Happy new year 🎆 3mo
Librarybelle Hooray!! 3mo
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Singout
Bad Girls: A Novel | Camila Sosa Villada
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We called them [cis gay men] “The Crows” because they liked to scavenge alongside us. But we knew that we‘d never really know why they came. What could possibly be the attraction of a motley troubled pack like ours made up of street girls, runaways.We mistrusted them even more for their double male lives. Their ease highlighted our discomfort: we‘d never had the chance to hide in the closet in the first place. We were born out of the closet.

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Bad Girls: A Novel | Camila Sosa Villada
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I made this quiz for Autostraddle and it was really fun to write and research! The eight books/authors are from Japan, Argentina, Iran, Korea, Brazil, Iceland, Canada, and the Dominican Republic, writing in lots of different genres/forms, like manga, science fiction, thrillers, coming of age, and magical realism. Let me know which book you got if you take the quiz! https://www.autostraddle.com/quiz-what-queer-book-in-translation-should-you-read...

Prairiegirl_reading Added to my wish list! Never heard of it before. It sounds like something I might like! 1y
Bookzombie I got Bad Girls, which I think might already be on my TBR. 🙂 1y
Clare-Dragonfly I got this and it sounds great! Maybe I can remember to nominate it for #LGBTBookClub next time! (edited) 1y
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Soubhiville I got and stacked 1y
Soubhiville Actually I already had it stacked 😁 now I‘m looking up all these others! 1y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Prairiegirl_reading I hope you like it! I think it sounds really unique. 1y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Bookzombie it was just translated last year and it get get some buzz! 1y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Clare-Dragonfly doesn't it? Its published by a tiny press in Canada, might be hard to source outside here. I couldn't find it on bookshop.org 1y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Soubhiville I really want to read that one, especially as a new queer parent! 1y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Kitta I loved it, hope you do to if you read it! 1y
KathyWheeler @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian It does. Since I liked the last book one of these quizzes recommended, I‘ll probably read this one too. 1y
Clare-Dragonfly Dang, I didn‘t think of that! I‘ll check interlibrary loan, though, and maybe my library or local bookstore can order it for me if they don‘t have it. 1y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Clare-Dragonfly hopefully! It is available, just not widely other than Canada it seems 1y
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