#camila sosa

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-Camila Sosa

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Camila Sosa

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Another crosspost from my bookstagram! Full titles under the cut!

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone -> The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Finna by Nino Cipri -> Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

Legendborn by Tracy Deon -> Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom -> Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada translated to English by Kit Maude

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia -> Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

The Ghosts of Rose Hill by RM Romero -> Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon -> Lakewood by Megan Giddings

The Unbroken by CL Clark -> The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg -> The Gods of Tango by Caro De Robertis

[sunshinesere]

Camila Sosa / Las Malas

[henessy]

yo cada vez que entro a una librería y se me ocurre preguntar por el precio de un libro

[youniverse-s]

"Porque el amor no llega. La juventud se me escurre entre los dedos y el amor no llega. Sufro por eso. Sufro también por el rechazo. Pero la falta de amor es peor."

Las Malas - Camila Sosa Villada

[apricotprincess2]

"Hablo de la sensación de estar tragando puñados de tierra de la mano de Dios".

Las malas - Camila Sosa Villada

"Something started in that darkness. I'm talking about my darkness now, I'm talking about myself. I'm talking about the feeling of swallowing handfuls of dirt from god's hand."

[sublecturas]

"Las Malas", de Camila Sosa Villada

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Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada

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Born in the small Argentine town of Mina Clavero, Camila is designated male but begins to identify from an early age as a girl. She is well aware that she’s different from other children and reacts to her oppressive, poverty-stricken home life, with a cowed mother and abusive, alcoholic father, by acting out—with swift consequences. Deeply intelligent, she eventually leaves for the city to attend university, slipping into prostitution to make ends meet. And in Sarmiento Park, in the heart of Córdoba, she discovers the strange, wonderful world of the trans sex workers who dwell there. Taken under the wing of Auntie Encarna, the 178-year-old eternal whose house shelters this unconventional extended family, Camila becomes a part of their stories—of a Headless Man who fled his country’s wars, a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, an abandoned baby boy who brings a twinkle to your eye. Camila Sosa Villada’s extraordinary first novel is a rich, nuanced portrait of a marginalized community: their romantic relationships, friendships and squabbles, difficulties at work, aspirations and disappointments. It bears witness to these lives constantly haunted by the specter of death—by disease or more violent means at the hands of customers, boyfriends, or the police—yet full of passion, empathy, and insight.

Mod opinion: I've read and enjoyed this book.

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Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale about finding a community among fellow outcasts. Born in the small Argentine town of Mina Clavero, Camila is designated male but begins to identify from an early age as a girl. She is well aware that she’s different from other children and reacts to her oppressive, poverty-stricken home life, with a cowed mother and abusive, alcoholic father, by acting out—with swift consequences. Deeply intelligent, she eventually leaves for the city to attend university, slipping into prostitution to make ends meet. And in Sarmiento Park, in the heart of Córdoba, she discovers the strange, wonderful world of the trans sex workers who dwell there. Taken under the wing of Auntie Encarna, the 178-year-old eternal whose house shelters this unconventional extended family, Camila becomes a part of their stories—of a Headless Man who fled his country’s wars, a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, an abandoned baby boy who brings a twinkle to your eye. Camila Sosa Villada’s extraordinary first novel is a rich, nuanced portrait of a marginalized community: their romantic relationships, friendships and squabbles, difficulties at work, aspirations and disappointments. It bears witness to these lives constantly haunted by the specter of death—by disease or more violent means at the hands of customers, boyfriends, or the police—yet full of passion, empathy, and insight.

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[emmalovesdilemmas]

Travesti heaven must be as beautiful as the stunning landscapes of our memory, somewhere to spend eternity without getting bored. Travesti she-wolves who die in winter are welcomed with special pomp and joy, into another world where they receive all the goodness denied to them in this. Meanwhile, those of us who are left behind embroider our death shrouds with sequins.

Bad Girls, Camila Sosa Villada

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Las Malas, Camila Sosa Villada

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Camila Sosa / Las Malas

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Este es el elogio a mi fealdad

a su forma de extraviada

a su mano callosa y su oscura axila.

Este es el elogio a mi cuerpo impreciso,

deambulando entre las sombras misericordiosas

de la noche.

Este es un canto a mi nariz rota, a mis manos de enano,

a la sombra nigromante de mi barba.

Este es un sacrificio a mis tetas de quinceañera hambrienta,

a mis pómulos de india mansa,

a mis labios secos por el mareo del viento.

A mis colmillos, a mis uñas rotas, a mis células,

a la vena hinchada de mi frente como la marca de Caín.

Estas son las últimas palabras de una amante desahuciada,

una conversación con algún dios al que le sobra el tiempo.

Camila Sosa Villada