一本鼓舞人心的回忆录与Danica Roem的宣言相会。Danica Roem是美国第一位当选为州议会议员的公开跨性别人士
Danica Roem作为一个跨性别的前金属乐队女歌手和政治新人,取代弗吉尼亚州26年来最著名的反LGBTQ在任者鲍勃·马歇尔(Bob Marshall)担任州代表,成为全国头条新闻。但在Danica创造历史之前,她必须改变她对自己生活中可能发生的事情的看法。这样做是讲故事的问题:在竞选期间,Danica聘请了一名反对派研究人员,从她过去的经历中挖掘出每一个故事,她的对手可能会抓住这些故事对她进行负面描述。
Danica以一种极具娱乐性的散文驳斥了对手试图对她进行回避的所有故事,展示了通过残酷的诚实和充满爱的真实性,她有可能接受低谷,甚至将其转化为自己最大的优势。Burn the Page从Danica的孤独、封闭和。。。
Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change
An inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the nation’s first openly trans person elected to US state legislature
Danica Roem made national headlines when—as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer—she unseated Virginia’s most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. Doing so was a matter of storytelling: during her campaign, Danica hired an opposition researcher to dredge up every story from her past that her opponent might seize on to paint her negatively.
In wildly entertaining prose, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and loving authenticity, it’s possible to embrace the low points, and even transform them into her greatest strengths.Burn the Page takes readers from Danica’s lonely, closeted, and…
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