Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968
Bonnet, Isabelle; Hackett, Sophie
Language: English
Published by Thames & Hudson, 2024
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- Title
- Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968
- Author
- Bonnet, Isabelle; Hackett, Sophie
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0500297908
- ISBN 13
- 9780500297902
- Item weight
- 1,086 grams
Brings together 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 protected 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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About the Author
Sophie Hackett is the curator of photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Susan Stryker is professor emirata of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona.
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