In 1965, Lisetta Carmi was invited to a New Year’s Eve party in her native city Genoa, where she was born in 1924 to a Jewish family. By then in her early 40s, and already an accomplished pianist and experienced political activist, Carmi had recently turned her attention towards photography, focusing initially on the harsh labour conditions of the city’s dockworkers. But at the party, she found a subject matter that would trump her interest: Genoa’s trans community...

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