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Transcendent : a memoir / Laverne Cox.
Van Pelt Library HQ77.8.C69 A3 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cox, Laverne, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cox, Laverne.
- Trans women--United States.
- Trans women.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Trans people in motion pictures.
- Transgender people in motion pictures.
- Transgender women.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 238 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (chiefly color) 24 cm
- illustrations.
- plates.
- Edition:
- First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Gallery Books, 2026.
- Summary:
- Laverne Cox is a powerhouse in the fight for transgender rights and representation - but her path from a struggling trans actress to a cultural movement was anything but easy. Surviving a childhood full of trauma, dealing with depression, and working at a drag restaurant in New York City for seven years, Laverne was turning 40 and felt it was time to throw in the towel when it came to being a Hollywood star - then she booked the character of Sophia Burset in Orange is the New Black. She made history as the first openly transgender person nominated for a Primetime Emmy, starred in a range of high-profile shows, and became the first transgender person to win a Daytime Emmy as executive producer on Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word. In this book, you will experience life in Laverne's shoes, from her childhood abuse to making her big break, dealing with Hollywood bureaucracy, and finding her voice through the chaos of it all.
- Contents:
- Author's note
- Part One: What's wrong with me? Fight them back and they'll be done
- New Orleans in a dress
- The orphanage
- Madear
- Armor
- A hustle for worthiness
- Mecca
- Part Two: What's happened to me? Indiana
- Finally, New York
- Transitions
- The rope's end
- Rifts
- Boy, boy, boys
- The work
- Part Three: What's right with me? The big break
- Speaking up through the darkness of fame
- Abundance
- Giuseppe
- Clean slate
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781668097755
- 1668097753
- 9781529994926
- 1529994926
- OCLC:
- 1583158431
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000375382
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