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CUERPOS PARA ODIAR

Claudia Rodríguez

An exciting and courageous work that reveals an author steeped in the cruel reality of marginalised life.
The literary rockstar Mariana Enriquez is our 'Editor for a Book' in 2024, and she surprises us with a compilation of texts that the writer and reference of the Latin American trans movement, Claudia Rodríguez, had self-published and distributed in fanzine format throughout Chile, and that we bring to Spain to leave you speechless.
Cuerpos para odiar is a raw, authentic and moving portrait of the lives of transvestites and trans women, exposing the sordidness of the street, police brutality, hunger and the implacable rejection of society. In a political gesture, Claudia Rodríguez defies spelling rules as a symbol of resistance and vindication of those who have no voice.

Claudia Rodríguez (Santiago de Chile, 1968) is a reference in the Latin American transvestite movement. Her background includes studying human rights, history of sexuality and prevention of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

In the literary field, she has participated in several workshops and her writing can be found scattered through fanzines with which she financed her social and political activism.

In 2011 she created the first transvestite theatre company with the play Historias travestis and has participated in collective works such as the book Cien historias en cien palabras: las transexuales hablan.

Currently, Claudia Rodríguez is mainly dedicated to exploring the importance of reading and writing, as well as artistic creation, as political tools in the transvestite movement.
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Published 2024-03-01 by Barrett

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That precise, raw, and yet poetic way of speaking about interventions on one's own body is one of the most striking aspects of Claudia Rodríguez's writingbut not the only one.

I was travelling in Chile and a young friend of hers left me a message: he asked me if I knew Claudia's fanzines. I told him I knew who she was, that she had been recommended to me, and that I wanted to read her and get to know her. Was there a bookshop where I could get her work? No, she said, I'll take the fanzines to the hotel, she manages them herself. I picked them up when I came back from a talk and read them in my room. I was immediately fascinated by her humour, her intelligence, her wit, her use of spoken word, her heartbreaking honesty.

The best transvestite writer.