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#Queerlit Book Club

Sun, Nov 12

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Birch Tree Bookstore

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#Queerlit Book Club
#Queerlit Book Club

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Nov 12, 2023, 3:00 PM EST – Nov 13, 2023, 4:30 PM EST

Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA

About the event

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.…

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