{"id":7392,"date":"2022-08-01T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:34:44","slug":"1-august-2022-publication-of-trans-memoir-twee-lewens-by-elise-bishop-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/1-august-2022-publication-of-trans-memoir-twee-lewens-by-elise-bishop-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"1 August 2022 \u2014 Publication of Trans Memoir, &#8220;Twee Lewens&#8221; by Elise Bishop, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 August 2022 \u2014 Publication of Trans Memoir, &#8220;Twee Lewens&#8221; by Elise Bishop, South Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published on 1 August 2022, Elise Bishop&#8217;s &#8220;Twee Lewens&#8221; (Two Lives) became the fourth trans memoir to be published in South Africa, after <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/5-january-2016-publication-of-always-anastacia-a-transgender-live-in-south-africa\/\">&#8220;Always Anastacia: A Transgender Live in South Africa&#8221; by Anastacia Tomson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/1-july-2018-publication-of-becoming-him-a-trans-memoir-of-triumph-south-africa\/\">Landa Mabenga&#8217;s &#8220;Becoming Him: A Trans Memoir of Triumph<\/a>, and Robert Hamblin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/21-february-2021-trans-memoir-robert-a-queer-crooked-memoir-for-the-not-so-straight-narrow-published-south-africa\/\">&#8220;Robert: A Queer &amp; Crooked Memoir for the not so Straight &amp; Narrow&#8221;<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/january-2025-publication-of-trans-memoir-i-am-tshiamo-my-transition-to-self-acceptance-and-womanhood-south-africa\/\">&#8220;I Am Tshiamo: My Transition to Self-Acceptance and Womanhood&#8221; by Tshiamo Modisane<\/a> was the fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elise Bishop was one of the first transgender South Africans to go public about her transition and gender affirmation surgery. The book is currently only available in Afrikaans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mambaonline.com\/2022\/12\/06\/elise-bishops-two-lives\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Twee-Lewens_Elise-Bishop.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7393\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6777231110097423;width:740px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Twee-Lewens_Elise-Bishop.jpeg 368w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Twee-Lewens_Elise-Bishop-203x300.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Twee-Lewens_Elise-Bishop-102x150.jpeg 102w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Twee-Lewens_Elise-Bishop-8x12.jpeg 8w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch our interview with Elise Bishop<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Honouring our elders \u2014 Elise Bishop, South Africa\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msdt-mS-9ME?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also watch this interview with Elise (in Afrikaans):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Elise Bishop gesels oor haar Twee Lewens\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IIkRyWT3lfs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 August 2022 \u2014 Publication of Trans Memoir, &#8220;Twee Lewens&#8221; by Elise Bishop, South Africa Published on 1 August 2022, Elise Bishop&#8217;s &#8220;Twee Lewens&#8221; (Two Lives) became the fourth trans memoir to be published in South Africa, after &#8220;Always Anastacia: A Transgender Live in South Africa&#8221; by Anastacia Tomson, Landa Mabenga&#8217;s &#8220;Becoming Him: A Trans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,337,147,32],"tags":[1753,27,1754],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-audio-video","category-publications","category-trans","tag-elise-bishop","tag-south-africa","tag-twee-lewens"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7419,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions\/7419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}