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Isabelle Bonnet: Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968

Isabelle Bonnet: Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968

UK 2024, 480 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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A wealth of research and an expansive selection of photographs to create an enduring account of America's first-known trans network, Casa Susanna. In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women, gender nonconforming people, and men who dressed as women found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills, New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed - dressed as and living as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression. »Casa Susanna« opens up that now-lost world. The photographs - mostly discovered by chance in a New York flea market in 2004 - chronicle the experiences of these women in states of relaxation, experimentation, connection, and joy. All of this was made possible by Susanna Valenti who - on her own journey toward womanhood - created Casa Susanna, a space where others could do the same. Supplementing the images, excerpts from the magazine »Transvestia« record a different kind of space where those who had been outcast by a rigidly binary society could connect. The people who came to Casa Susanna found a space where they could explore and celebrate their own and each other's femininity, as they could not elsewhere. Their creations are also a reminder that there were, and still are, many ways to explore the boundaries of gender.
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