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Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change (edición 2022)

por Danica Roem

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Biography & Autobiography. LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction.) Politics. Nonfiction. HTML: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 whenâ??as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomerâ??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 elseâ??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 Dan
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Título:Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change
Autores:Danica Roem
Información:[New York, New York] : Viking, [2022]
Colecciones:Lo he leído pero no lo tengo, Read in 2022
Valoración:**1/2
Etiquetas:F, 2020s, memoir/biography, lgbtqi

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Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change por Danica Roem

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Great audiobook! Danica does such a fun job narrating and learning more about her background made me like her more than I already did. She is a great example of what local politics can be and I hope she continues to set a standard for leadership. ( )
  jamieschecter | Jul 16, 2022 |
the beginning of this book was so great. i really loved the way it started. first of all, danica narrates this herself, and she's passionate and energetic and full of personality. (she also sometimes mumbles but mostly she is funny and obviously cares about what she's writing about, which makes her fun to listen to.) the way danica talks about getting into politics and why, she really makes the case for someone who cares about a place and issues to join the fight and make a difference. she talks about not letting someone else tell or write your story, for being the driver of your own life, and it is inspiring. Her personal story is also inspiring and i'm so impressed by her. i don't want to move to virginia, but i would love to vote for her.

the book doesn't keep the same energy and intensity throughout, so i can't rate it as high as the beginning of the book deserves, but this is really good. anyone thinking of getting into local politics should give this a listen.

"This is a book about both the importance of the stories we tell one another and the power in setting fire to the stories you don't want to be in anymore, whether written by you or written about you by someone else."

"...each of the most important developments in my own life has involved a moment in which I rejected a narrative that no longer worked for me. A moment in which I realized that I could tell other people myself what my story was going to be instead of accepting their interpretation of a life they never lived."

"The facts of your life are what they are. The question is: are you going to tell your own story about them, or are you going to let other people do that for you?"

"A lot of people, especially women, worry that if they run for office not only will they be attacked with negative ads (spoiler alert: they will) but that every screwup in their lives will be laid bare as a carcass of sadness on a roadside buffet, left to the political vultures who are paid to follow the tire treads to their feast. They don't want to be judged for their faults, even though the very scavengers picking on what's left of their emotional flesh have probably done far worse than they ever will. (Those bastards!) There's just one catch, though. What happens if there's nothing left to pick at because you've already mounted it on a wall? What if you could go from flattened roadkill to finally coiffed taxidermy? Behold the modern campaign: Be the taxidermist! Own your narrative! Put your shit out there! Let everyone gaze into the plastic eyes of your severed head affixed to a pike coming out of a board attached to a wall and think 'She's got my vote.'"

"If you've got good ideas bring them to the table because this is your America too, and it's time for you to run it." ( )
  overlycriticalelisa | Jul 1, 2022 |
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Biography & Autobiography. LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction.) Politics. Nonfiction. HTML: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 whenâ??as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomerâ??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 elseâ??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 Dan

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