COMING SOON
- Claudia Cavallin
- 4 days ago
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BOOK CHAPTER

Claudia Cavallin, Parallel Worlds Connecting Multiple Identities: Transgender Existence in Camila Sosa Villada's Bad Girls. «The Handbook of Trans Science Fictions» (co-edited with Sabine R. Sharp). Liverpool University Press 2026.
Bad Girls (2022) by Camila Sosa Villada describes a diverse family construction that restructures the linearity of existence connected with parallel worlds that unite multiple identities: Two genders in the same body; two spaces—the park and the house—as the only route of traveling from reality to Science Fiction, and two ways of using the identity of their bodies, changing from day to night. In line with the gender theory of Judith Butler, Virginie Despentes, and Cecilia Gentili, the discussion of gender in this novel is situated in a literary space where categories are shaped by factors such as class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Here, a parallel world is constructed through resistance to the cultural imposition of gender identities. In this novel, to be trans is to live in several temporal and spatial dimensions, where identity connects through the feelings of a little boy named 'Twinkle Eyes,' who can transgress all borders and spaces.
INTERVIEWS

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara: «En la novela, la belleza natural no alivia, interpela». Entrevista para Carátula. Centroaméricacuenta, España 2026.

Gustavo Valle: «La música en la escritura es un gran ordenador de la experiencia». Entrevista para Trópico Absoluto. Berlín, 2026.

Eva Feld: «Para tergiversar la historia es necesario conocerla a fondo». Entrevista para el Papel Literario del diario El Nacional. Caracas / Madrid, 2026.

Karina Sainz Borgo: «Aquello que no debió ocurrir también nos incumbe». Entrevista para el Papel Literario del diario El Nacional. Caracas / Madrid, 2026.
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