Politics

“I feel like I’ve betrayed my family by exposing their dirty laundry.”

During her childhood and adolescence, Fer Rivas (Barcelona, 1994) identified as male and was attracted to men. When she was in high school, her father died suddenly of a heart attack. For almost ten years, she kept her grief bottled up and buried in a corner of her heart, unable to cope. Literature was the tool to unblock it: Rivas poured everything she felt and had experienced into a letter to her father, written with honesty and courage, preceding her gender transition. Now that text has been converted into an autobiographical novel. I was a boy (Ángulo Editorial / Sexto Piso), and now Rivas is working to transform it into a play as well.

During her childhood and adolescence, Fer Rivas (Barcelona, 1994) identified as male and was attracted to men. When she was in high school, her father died suddenly of a heart attack. For almost ten years, she kept her grief bottled up and buried in a corner of her heart, unable to cope.

Literature was the tool to unblock it: Rivas poured everything she felt and had experienced into a letter to her father, written with honesty and courage, preceding her gender transition. Now that text has been converted into an autobiographical novel. (Ángulo Editorial / Sexto Piso), and now Rivas is working to transform it into a play as well.

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