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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I knew this was the beginning of a disaster in terms of policy, in terms of stigma, scapegoating, and the dehumanization was so clear to me.
And so I think I also thought, like, maybe one more human story out there can help.
Mobile, it's interesting.
I go back now and I find it quaint and way too hot in the summer.
But like the azaleas, there's lots of beautiful things about it.
And there are all these antebellum homes that still exist on like Government Street.
And there's something quaint about parts of it.
And there's just a lot of trauma, though, literally on the streets, particularly in the old neighborhood where my mom still lives.
There's trauma on those streets for me.
We would call it down the bay.
Down the bay.
And it's where most of the black people in Mobile live.
And yeah, and it's downtown.
It's downtown Mobile, which I think is fantastic.
But because Bienville Square and like the Mardi Gras parades, Mardi Gras started in Mobile in this country, not in New Orleans, as some people might think.
And so the Mardi Gras parades happen downtown.
And I love it.
And my twin brother, yes.
Yeah, Mobile, though, when I was growing up there, I was just, I needed to get out.
It was awful.
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