Laverne Cox

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736 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 27 Jun

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Laverne Cox /Comic Ali Siddiq · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

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.

It felt repressive, and I just knew I needed to be – the second I discovered there was a New York, I knew –

I had to be there.

And so most of my childhood, I was in Mobile, but I was in my imagination.

I was in New York or I was on a TV screen or I was on a movie screen or I was on a Broadway stage.

I always had – there was always music in my head, which is such a wonderful gift.

And so I just – from the second I was walking, I was dancing.

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