Emil.ia

Born Emilia, Emil never felt like a woman. The young trans man takes the decision to have a mastectomy to finally be comfortable in one's own body. A choice that was not in doubt before he met Lisa, his new roommate, who, despite her appearance of a beautiful young woman, is full insurance, finds that her chest could do with a little adjustment. Between breast removal from one and breast augmentation from the other, which is the or the most legitimate to go through surgery? Through a Peer Jongeling tells us about his concrete experience in his comic strip half-fictional, half-autobiographical, the journey of a transition, of a possible detransition and a new beginning. Built from reflections intimate discussions on gender dysphoria, but also conscious discourse on the realities experienced by members of the LGBTQIA+ community, Emil·ia is a story where uncertainties, trajectories, dreams and the sensitive coexist. The purity of the cutting, the force of the evocation, of the symbolism and of the second degree of This young German author comes to soften the lines of a narration rigorous.