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Mar 31, 2014 · Geena Rocero: Why I must come out. When fashion model Geena Rocero first saw a professionally shot photo of herself clad in a bikini, she was beside herself. "I thought...you have arrived!" she says proudly.
Jun 7, 2023 · The book chronicles Rocero’s journey from winning trans beauty pageants in the Philippines to working as a model in the US while “stealth” (or not publicly out as trans), telling the story of...
- Emma Specter
Jun 9, 2023 · What to Read in 2023. Trans Model Geena Rocero Embraces Her Authentic Self in Her Memoir Horse Barbie. Rocero hid her identity during her early modeling years then came out during a TED Talk....
- Nila Do Simon
First up: Geena Rocero, an award-winning producer, model, director and the author of "Horse Barbie: A Memoir." A stunning narrative at the center of transgender history and activism, Rocero's story of survival, love, celebration and pure joy is the kind of book you won't want to put down.
Jun 6, 2023 · In 2022, her directorial debut Caretakers, a PBS docu-series on the lives of Filipinos in care work, was nominated for four Emmy awards. With Horse Barbie, Rocero makes perhaps her most consequential announcement yet: she is ready to be fully herself, big, bold, and irreverent.
- Raymond Ang
Jun 22, 2023 · On the back-half, Rocero walks through her pivot to modeling in New York City, feeling like a James Bond-like spy, making history on the TED stage, the power of community, and to close, a powerful passage from her new memoir Horse Barbie.
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Nov 7, 2023 · As chronicled in the activist turned author’s groundbreaking memoir Horse Barbie, Rocero rose from pageant queen in the Philippines to top fashion model and trans activist in the US, having...
