The Poetry Project

Cecilia Gentili

Cecilia, a gorgeous latina transsexual woman, stands outside in front of a body of water, surrounded by plants. She wears a multicolored pink, black, blue and white blouse with a bow tied around her neck. She looks directly in the camera and smiles.
© Leah James

Cecilia Gentili is an advocate, organizer, and storyteller working at the intersections of sex work, immigrant rights, incarceration issues, and trans liberation. As a performer Cecilia starred as Ms. Orlando in the hit FX Show Pose. She has also performed in her one-woman show The Knife Cuts Both Ways, and in countless storytelling events across the country. Cecilia’s recently published her epistolary memoir Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist (Little Puss, 2022), which won the 2023 Stonewall Book Award.