Burn the Page by Danica Roem
\nAn inspi rational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem\, the nation's first openly trans person elected to US state legislature
\nDanica Roem made nat ional headlines when--as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer--she unseated Virginia's most notoriously anti-LG BTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica ma de 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.
\nIn wildly en tertaining prose\, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents tried t o hedge against her\, showing how through brutal honesty and loving authen ticity\, it's possible to embrace the low points\, and even transform them into her greatest strengths. Burn the Page takes readers from Danica's lo nely\, closeted\, and at times operatically tragic childhood to her positi on 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 i n anymore\, whether written by you or about you by someone else--and rewri te 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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