Danica Roem urges trans political hopefuls 'be vulnerable enough to be visible'

On the morning of her 24th birthday in 2008, Danica Roem woke up in a Charlottesville K-Mart parking lot under a fleece blanket she’d purchased from the store because she couldn’t afford a room in the Econolodge while her band was in the city recording its first album. Sixteen years later, the former death metal frontwoman was invited back to the city as one of the distinguished speakers at the Virginia Festival of the Book, where she discussed her memoir, “Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing...