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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How would I describe it?
That's an interesting thing because the way I approached the book is I was like, this is what happened and this is how it made me feel.
But characterizing how my mother was to me, my mother was...
A disciplinarian.
She constantly corrected my grammar, and my brother's grammar, which I'm insanely grateful for now.
Insanely grateful for.
My biggest pet peeve is when people say less when they mean fewer.
Yeah.
Anyway, it's still great.
So my mother, she was critical of appearance and overly concerned about how she appeared to the world.
That was almost like a driving force to her, her not being embarrassed and people not talking badly about her.
And in small towns, people talk quite a bit.
She made it about her.
She made it about what people were saying about her and that people were talking about her and that I was a bad reflection of her.
And then this therapy thing, too, was like, who's going to pay for it?
There's no money.
So I was all of a sudden a problem.
And I understood it being a big problem for me, but then even talking to my brother about it and him just sort of watching all of that happen, there was sort of a horror for him.
I've tried not to speak for him in this book, but I think he won't mind me saying this because he's told me watching all of this policing of my gender expression and this attention that I was getting that wasn't,
positive or affirming, like the message that was sent to him is that like, I can't be anything like that.
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