Laverne Cox and Ali Siddiq, in deeply personal conversations with Tanya Mosley on Fresh Air Weekend, reflect on childhood trauma, systemic oppression, and the redemptive power of storytelling. Their memoirs—Cox’s Transcendent and Siddiq’s My Father—reveal how early violence, familia
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