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So What If I'm a Puta: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire
Amara Moira
Amanda De Lisio
Bruna Dantas Lobato
Charlotte Shane
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An incisive, intimate diary of the life of a travesti sex worker in Brazil, with a foreword by Charlotte Shane.
So What If I’m a Puta, originally published on author Amara Moira’s popular blog of the same name, consists of 44 crônicas that wryly portray her experiences as a trans sex worker in Brazil.
In a brazen, funny, and at times heartbreaking voice, Moira explores the political and personal textures of her encounters with the men who buy sex from her, and the complex reality of her labor of a sort of love.
Woven through Moira’s essays are reflections on transition, safe sex, desire, whorephobia, consent—in the grim context of Brazil’s record rates of violence against trans women.
Ultimately, Moira writes to center trans sex workers in Brazil’s putafeminist movement, modeling a feminism that envisions inclusivity, safety, self-determination, and joy for us all.
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Sapph-Lit\ \ Nina\ \ • Dec 19 2025
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Sunny's Book Truck\ \ CJ\ \ • Aug 9 2025
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[Poll:\ \ How many books in translation do you read a year?\ \ \ \ August is Women In Translation month. A significant portion of my personal reading falls under this category across genre. A lot of the publishers I keep up with and challenge me as a reader (New Directions, Dorothy Project, NYRB, Seven Stories Press) focus on translated works. Reading outside of the North American lens is important and also the best way to breathe new life into your reading diet. If you're feeling like everything you're reading is tonally the same lately, I recommend trying to read something thats been translated!\ \ Below are some recommendations, some I've read and some on my own TBR. Let me know in the comments what your favorite translated book is. All books are tagged to this post, and link out to our Bookshop.org site if you'd like to purchase any of them. :-)\ \ \ \
- Painting Time: An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter.\ \
- Blowfish: An atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully preparing and deliberately eating a lethal dish of blowfish.\ \
- On the Clock: A family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story in a compact tale told in two alternating strands.\ \ \ \ \
- Hurricane Season: A novel that takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence--real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it's a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.\ \
- The Employees: The Employees probes into what makes us human, while delivering a hilariously stinging critique of life governed by the logic of productivity.\ \
- Our Share of Night: A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family.\ \ \ \ \
- On the Calculation of Volume: Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly.\ \
- The Endless Week: A lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age.\ \
- So What If I'm a Puta: Woven through Moira's essays are reflections on transition, safe sex, desire, whorephobia, consent--in the grim context of Brazil's record rates of violence against trans women.\ \ \ \ \
- Killing Stella: A domestic horror story that builds to an apocalyptic ending, Killing Stella distills many of the themes of Marlen Haushofer’s acclaimed novel The Wall into a claustrophobic, gothic, shattering novella. \ \
- Near to the Wild Heart: The story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.\ \
- The Hole: The Hole magnifies the plight of some younger adults, particularly women. Work is banal. Childrearing is unappealing. And being a housewife is not, as one of Asa’s older neighbors describes it, “a summer vacation that never ends.” What, the novel asks, is left for a woman to do?](https://sunnysbooktruck.binderybooks.com/item/5iMdAZujBUBY5tuYWMlI/)
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Bien Leidos\ \ tomesandtextiles\ \ • Jul 22 2025
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[Good morning, internet amigxs and welcome to the first installment of weekly Latine book releases here on Bindery! The interface here is a little different and I'm on a bit of a learning curve for the interface, so please bear with me as I transition! I will say, the formatting on here so much more aesthetic and makes it clearer to understand, so I hope you enjoy the new format, too!\ \ A reminder that a week from today I'll be in conversation with THE Aiden Thomas on July 29th at 6PM EST on Instagram Live. We did some reading sprints this weekend in preparation over on Discord, so if you haven't joined us, what are you waiting for?\ \ Speaking of Discord, we're currently running a poll to pick out the November Bien Leidos book club pick. If you're interested in having a say, please head over to the #polls channel on Discord by end of day today. You can find our August - September picks already announced here (social media announcement for August coming up this week).\ \ And now on to our Latine book releases this week, starting with the BOOK OF THE WEEK...\ \ \ \ Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan (Book | Audiobook) gripping retelling of Persephone and Demeter in the Mexicali borderlands from the author of River Woman, River Demon. I'm eagerly anticipating my copy so I can read it.\ \ SPEC FICTION \ \ Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories by Pedro Iniguez (Book) Released 7/15!!!! Short stories for lovers of science fiction and fantasy weaving Latinx themes and pulp stylings.\ \ GOTHIC \ \ \ \ Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez (Book | Audiobook) Cuban a twisty gothic debut about two former best friends reconnecting at a secluded house deep in the swamplands of Florida\ \ LITERARY FICTION\ \ \ \ The Tilting House by Ivonne Lamazeras (Book) Literary historical fiction of two estranged sisters with a complicated past and an acrimonious present reunite in 1990s Cuba to confront the riddle of family amid the scars of political upheaval.\ \ NONFICTION \ \ So What If I'm a Puta: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire by Amara Moira, Edited by Amanda de Lisio and Translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato (Book) Essay collection that looks at trans workers in Brazil.\ \ \ \ Everyone Leaves/Todos Se Van by Wendy Guerra (Book | Audiobook) Available in both English and Spanish (Book | Audiobook), CNN's Wendy Guerra details her coming of age under the Castro regime through journal entries.\ \ PICTURE BOOK \ \ Diego Fuego the Firefighting Dragon by Allison Rozo & Rafael Rozo |Illustrated by Vanessa Morales (Book) Based on cover and them alone--a firefighting DRAGON?!?! How cute is this?\ \ PAPERBACK RELEASE \ \ Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias (Book | Audiobook) I reviewed this book last year after Silvia Moreno-Garcia recommended it in her newsletter and I was NOT disappointed. A dystopian novel-in-translation that's more timely nor more than ever.\ \
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