Laverne Cox
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736 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
Laverne Cox’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So a good chunky heel, platform heel, and my head was shaved.
And I shaved my brows and drew them on.
And a lot of people, and I thought Grace Jones, because his look was very androgynous.
The drag scene I wasn't in, but I also, like, I had...
I had internalized transphobia.
And like, for me, there was, because by this time, by the time I made it to New York, I'd also read Bell Hooks.
And so I had, and I'd read other feminist writers who were very skeptical of drag and this performance of womanhood that was sort of seen as mockery by some feminist.
And so I was sort of contending with that and trying to like navigate my newfound feminist politics with like my gender and not wanting to sort of like...
feed into some sort of retrograde idea of womanhood.
So that was introduced in college, but underneath all of that was like a deep, deep transphobia that I'd internalized.
It was a lot of – it was like I was terrified of ending up in New Orleans wearing a dress.
Because I think in my mind, too, if I –
embraced the womanhood, the girlhood that I knew I was.
And in my mind, I thought that like, on top of like, you know, all the stigma that you are a degenerate or something that I think I internalized about trans people.
It's also that I didn't think I could be smart, even though I loved smart women.
There was some, I think there was just something about, I was never presented with images of drag performers or trans women or,
on television if I ever even saw trans women on television at the time that were articulate and intellectual and and even as I entered the club scene there were so many really really smart drag performers who were just brilliant artists um but I needed I needed time to like let all that stuff go and um I just needed time Laverne Cox it's been such a pleasure to meet you and thank you for this conversation thank you um this has really been wonderful
Listen, Doc, I need my dosage.
I've given five years $80,000 and my freedom for this.
I'm finally who I'm supposed to be.
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