Best Of: Laverne Cox /Comic Ali Siddiq
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On NPR's Wildcard podcast, Willem Defoe is an open book. I'm a terrible liar. Aren't actors supposed to be good at lying? Yeah, maybe I'm a bad actor. Definitely sometimes.
Watch or listen to that wildcard conversation on the NPR app, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley in Los Angeles. Today, Laverne Cox. For over a decade, she's been one of the most visible trans women in America.
In her new memoir, Transcendent, she writes about growing up in Mobile, Alabama, and the bullying and harassment she faced as a feminine child who could not confront form to what was expected of her. She writes about how she got through it by in a way leaving her body and going somewhere else in her mind. A lot of the time, that place was music and dance. I just love pushing the grocery cart and then dancing with the grocery cart as if it was like a partner.
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