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Burn the Page - A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change (Hardcover)
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Burn the Page - A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change (Hardcover)
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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 at times
operatically tragic childhood to her position as a rising star in a
party she's helped forever change. Burn the Page is so much more
than a stump speech: it's an extremely inspiring manifesto about
how it's possible to set fire to the stories you don't want to be
in anymore, whether written by you or about you by someone
else--and rewrite your own future, whether that's running for
politics, in your work, or your personal life. This book will not
just encourage people who think they have to be spotless to run for
office, but inspire all of us to own our personal narratives as
Danica does.
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