Summary of Danica Roem's Burn the Page

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was able to keep my health insurance in 2019, which came with the added bonus of being able to continue driving bigots crazy with accusations of being a transgender delegate.
#2 The first person to ask me to consider running for office was James Parrish, who led the LGBTQ rights organization Equality Virginia in Richmond. I had never been involved with activism before, but I felt like I could help out legislators who hadn’t seen me in person since I changed my name and gender marker.
#3 I was a journalist at the Montgomery County Sentinel, a newspaper in Maryland, and I was burning out. I was stagnating, and my enthusiasm was dipping. I loved this career, but it wasn’t panning out.
#4 I had become intent on plotting how to get the Prince William County School Board to revise their nondiscrimination policy to include sexual orientation and gender identity. I spent every shift at the Afghan Kabob House, plotting how to earn those five votes.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• LGBTQ+
• Biography
• Autobiography
• LGBT
• Sexualité
• sexualité
• Sexualité

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822510753
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Danica Roem's Burn the Page
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was able to keep my health insurance in 2019, which came with the added bonus of being able to continue driving bigots crazy with accusations of being a transgender delegate.

#2

The first person to ask me to consider running for office was James Parrish, who led the LGBTQ rights organization Equality Virginia in Richmond. I had never been involved with activism before, but I felt like I could help out legislators who hadn’t seen me in person since I changed my name and gender marker.

#3

I was a journalist at the Montgomery County Sentinel, a newspaper in Maryland, and I was burning out. I was stagnating, and my enthusiasm was dipping. I loved this career, but it wasn’t panning out.

#4

I had become intent on plotting how to get the Prince William County School Board to revise their nondiscrimination policy to include sexual orientation and gender identity. I spent every shift at the Afghan Kabob House, plotting how to earn those five votes.

#5

I was poor, and I didn’t think I could afford to run for office. But I was wrong.

#6

I knew I could be a plausible candidate for the House seat. I knew Bob Marshall was wildly out of step with a district that voted Democratic in higher-turnout federal elections. I figured Hillary Clinton would win the presidency in 2016, which would excite Democrats and help elect Virginia's first Black senator.

#7

I knew that developing good relationships with reporters and getting adequate coverage wasn't a problem, as long as my three decades of ye-olde-personal-effups wouldn't be much of an issue. I knew I could win the election if I could raise the money to pay for a full campaign team and a full ad campaign.

#8

I knew that if I could share my story with the school board in Prince William County, I could do the same in Richmond as a state lawmaker.

#9

The magic of storytelling is what fueled my activism. I wanted to use my story to inspire others, and allow them to take charge of making policy changes and positions of power.

#10

It’s important to be yourself when you run for office, because people can’t trust you if you’re hiding parts of yourself.

#11

We all have fears of rejection, and this is especially true for politicians. People love to slow down and watch a car burn, but they wouldn’t want to be the driver of that fire.

#12

After you’ve gotten your shit together, you must still be careful about what you reveal about yourself publicly. There are some norms that keep us from a Big Brother level of transparency, and if your entire life is just Look what a tragic figure I am! then it’s hard not only for other people to move past that roadside wreckage, but also for you to get into the tow truck and start fresh again.

#13

I was able to reflect on my life and its eccentricities, and use them to tell a relatable story about how I had learned and grown from those experiences.

#14

Being genuine about your life’s story means that you don’t have to act like one person in front of one set of people and someone else in front of a different audience. When you do have that moment of confronting your fears and putting yourself out there just as you are, you must acknowledge all the warts, flaws, and foibles of your past as well as the cool, kick-ass things about yourself.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The 13th District part of Manassas is where a police officer in 1993 found John Bobbitt’s dismembered member in the grass next to a 7-Eleven in Yorkshire, ran inside, picked up a (questionably sized) Big Bite hot dog box and ice, and placed said phallus in the container to await transport to—presumably—Dick Tailors ‘R’ Us.

#2

I grew up in Prince William County, Virginia, and experienced first hand the differences between Republican and Democratic politics.