Interview with a Superstar
– Carla Antonelli
Note before we start the interview. This interview was very difficult for me, not because Carla did not want to do it, she was the very frist to answer my call, I got an answer from her within 12 hours of YES, it was because she did not speak English very well and my Spanish I am a afraid to say sucks! If it were not for my new friend from Mexico, Fabiola, this interview might not have happened. Also remember that many words in Spanish have many meanings so a couple of these answers you may have to read a couple of times…. in closing, all I can say is thank you my new friend Fabiola
VR Who is Carla Antonelli?
CA Carla is a transsexual woman, who is also interested in human rights, politics, unfairness and fights, in the frame of her own possibilities, by the GLTB
equality.
VR Since when you has been Carla in body and mind?
CA My first hormonal treatment started just when I reached the age of 17.
VR Who was your inspiration?
CA The rebelliousness against a physical body that I didn’t accepted and the desire of unify mind and body.
VR What do you think you have to offer the transgender community?
CA Information against people discrimination, to dignify transexualism and try to avoid social classes divisiondue TV, TS, CD or any other expression of transgenderism.
VR Do you think you have made a difference in the transgender community?
CA All people are different as their contributions, each one tends to express his/her own point of view about life, The fact of be transsexual, doesn’t imply that all the people must think and act in the same way.
VR What do you think makes you stand out above others?
CA Absolutely nothing, all the time I like to be myself, in any case not for stand out nor to be a leader.
VR Do you feel nervous when you need to talk other people about your life?
CA Hee, hee, it depends on which parts of my life…
VR Would you ever get SRS Or when did you have SRS?
CA The SRS is absolutely necessary for the people who, since the deepest part of their soul, feels the need. Also there exist people that for 10,000 different reasons don’t want a SRS. Many different reasons as transsexual people exist. In any case, always we must talk about transsexual men and women, with or without SRS, just if they live according their gender by speech, action and behavior.
VR What has been your biggest accomplishment?
CA To loose my fears and have a better knowledge about myself.
VR What makes you happy?
CA Social equality!
VR What really makes you upset?
CA The War and human greed, things that in many cases
walks together.
VR Have you ever had a true love in life?
CA Oh yes!
VR Are you in love now?
CA I live in love all the time<smile>.
VR Who do you admire?
CA Ghandi, Che Guevara, Mother Therese of Calcuta, Liz Taylor…
VR As a transgenderd person do you think you have received the proper respect you deserve in life?
CA There are times and parts of my life that this has a positive answer and others a negative one, always it will be people who likes to respect and other who not.
VR What words of wisdom would you give a to someone who is reaching out for help?
CA Perseverance and never get weak, with this two things one will find the light at the end of the road.
VR Do you think you are nice person or do you think you can be a bitch at times? (the word bitch in Spanish is very hard to understand and translate, so my translator took the liberity to change it to witch instead)
CA I try to be nice and educated but I’m shure that there exist people who think that I’m a real witch hee, hee, hee.
VR Do you have any pet peeves?
CA High-handedness, arrogance and intolerant people, above all intolerant people.
VR Where do you see yourself in the future?
CA I just hope to see myself, that’s not a little thing! hee, hee
VR Do you feel that we as transgendered people are getting what we deserve as human beings from our government?
CA ABSOLUTELY NOT!
VR Who is your favorite fiction character(s), in literature or in the movies, and why?
CA Don Quixote by his unbreakable perseverance.
VR Do you have a favorite movie and why?
CA “Telma and Louise” because they didn’t care about how they were to pay a high price for achieve their liberty.
VR Can you recommend us a motivating or inspirational book. that has changed your perception about the world?
CA ”One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Translator Note: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was a Colombian writer, now he has a Mexican nationality and of course he lives here in Mexico City since many years ago. Remember that he won the Nobel Prize on Literature some years ago)
VR Do you have a final statement, for our readers?
CA United without strain, our voices will heard further. We must avoid the same attitudes that many others hasbeen used against us: to discriminate people by his/her ways of life or thoughts. Many kisses for all the boys and girls.
You can also see more pictures of Carla and learn more about this fantastic woman on her WEBSITE or you can drop her an EMAIL and let her know what you thought of the interview
