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Title: ‘Nobody’s Slave’, the Story of Elena de Cespedes, an Intersex Woman of the 16th
Post by: Shana A on March 21, 2010, 10:45:58 AM
'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 (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