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Speaker 1: I'm Laverne Cox, actress, producer, transgender icon. You may know

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Speaker 1: me from Orange, Just the New Black or Disclosure. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to create a public space for the conversations I'm

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Speaker 1: having in private, and I thought a podcast was the

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Speaker 1: perfect way to do that. And my guests and I, oh,

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Speaker 1: we go there wherever that place is, My incredible guests

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Speaker 1: and I go all the way there. So note to self,

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Speaker 1: she is not going to throw any softball questions. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we are talking about everything from dating while trans, dating

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Speaker 1: as a black woman, dating while over forty. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: talk a lot about dating here. Seventy of the people

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Speaker 1: said they do believe in soulmates, and I think it

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Speaker 1: keeps a lot of people single. And I asked every

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Speaker 1: single man I slept with, you know how you became

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Speaker 1: interested in trans women and what is your interest and

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Speaker 1: trans women? But we also dive deep into trauma, resilience,

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Speaker 1: the social value of beauty, Beyonce, duh, you name it.

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Speaker 1: My body has always been talking to me, but now

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Speaker 1: I have a way to talk back. We don't often

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Speaker 1: talk about beauty as a way that many many people

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Speaker 1: and women in particular, are exceptionally marginalized. Nothing is off limits, honey. Nothing.

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Speaker 1: The first time I ever experimented with starvation was I

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Speaker 1: think I was ten years old, maybe eleven. The fact

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Speaker 1: that you think I'm here to please you is exactly

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Speaker 1: the white woman problem. Can we get a little okay? Well,

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Speaker 1: it will make you think, It will challenge and hopefully

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Speaker 1: inspire you. Love is intimate. We want people to understand

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Speaker 1: us and understand that struggle. We're trying to create an

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Speaker 1: identity in a culture where our humanity has just been

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Speaker 1: fully denied. And girl, we have a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: along the way. From me, I let go of height

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Speaker 1: in my last week. The Laverne Cox Show will drop

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Speaker 1: every Thursday starting February fourth. It's a powerful thing to

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Speaker 1: be loved. Listen to The Laverne Cox Show in the

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get

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Speaker 1: your podcast