Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez, researcher at the Centre Dona i Literatura, has recently published two volumes that reflect on the reality of trans people in Spain and Argentina throughout the twentieth century. The first is Transbarcelonas (Edicions Bellaterra, 2016), which analizes and puts in context some of the most relevant political and cultural discourses of the transsexual arena in Barcelona, including cinema, shows, performances, comics, novels, short stories, press articles, autobiographies, interviews, and trans people who write or are written about. The second volume is Memorias, identidades y experiencias trans: (In)visibilidades entre Argentina y España (editorial Biblos, 2015), coedited with Jorge Luis Peralta (Universidad Nacional de La Plata and researcher of the GRC Creació i pensament de les dones) which collects the testimonies of transvestites, transsexuals, and transgender people in Argentina and Spain from the 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This volume includes essays by the editors and by María Soledad Cutuli, Óscar Guasch, Jordi Mas, Adrián Melo, Alejandro Modarelli, José Antonio Nieto, Cristina Ornielli, Raquel (Lucas) Platero Méndez and Majo Torres, among others.
