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Bisexual Content: Frida Kahlo (cisgender woman) had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Frida Kahlo was Latinx, Mexican. She also had chronic pain and medical issues as a result of childhood polio and a traffic accident during her teenage years.
Publisher's Summary: Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle. Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman -- with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend.