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‘Nobody’s Slave’, the Story of Elena de Cespedes, an Intersex Woman of the 16th

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'Nobody's Slave', the Story of Elena de Cespedes, an Intersex Woman of the 16th Century, by Agustín Sánchez Vidal

Elena de Céspedes
translated by Curtis E. Hinkle

http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2010/03/nobodys-slave-story-of-elena-de.html

"Elena de Céspedes was a hermaphrodite, and mulatto slave, a character like this is only discovered once in a lifetime"

Agustín Sánchez Vidal came across the true story of a character that any novelist would be inspired by. Elena de Céspedes, who was a hermaphrodite who lived in the sixteenth century, a mulatto persecuted and accused of lesbianism in court
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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