Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox is on a nationwide college speaking tour that stops in the Tristate Tuesday. The actress — best known for her character Sophia, an incarcerated transgendered woman and prison hair stylist — has become a public voice for transgender rights and awareness. As NKU’s LGBTQ History Month keynote speaker, Cox will present “Ain’t I a Woman: My Journey to Womanhood” to what’s sure to be a full house.
7 p.m. Tuesday; doors open at 6:15 p.m. (no admittance after 7 p.m.). $10. Northern Kentucky University, Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, Ky., lgbtq.nku.edu.
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2014.
