Who is Laverne Cox twin?

In his youth, Reginald Lamar Cox, who was born in Mobile, Alabama, sang as a soprano in the choir of his church. Prior to leaving Yale to concentrate on music, he attended the San Francisco Art Institute to study painting and Yale to pursue a master’s degree in sculpting. He traveled to New York primarily to study voice with La Gran Scena Opera Company’s lead soprano and company founder Ira Siff.

Lamar took part in an open discussion with authors bell hooks, Marci Blackman, and Samuel R. Delany in 2014 as part of hooks’ work as scholar-in-residence at The New School. The discussion was titled “Transgressive Sexual Practice.” He has credited the writing of hooks and Toni Morrison as well as the operatic work Plague Mass by Diamanda Galás as sources of inspiration.

Lamar’s Funeral Doom Spiritual, which debuted in 2016 as a performance and a multimedia installation comprising objects, movies, and prints, was commissioned by One Archive and the University of Southern California. The work is loosely based on the life and demise of Willie Francis, a Black American accused of killing a 53-year-old white man at the age of 15. Francis’ case only gained widespread attention after he managed to escape an attempted electric chair execution, at which point the NAACP spoke with him and discovered that he had a sexual relationship with the victim.

Funeral Doom Spiritual, whose conceptual roots were in Lamar’s studies of representations of blackness, black masculinity, and interracial desire, as well as the convergence of Michel Foucault’s work on the panopticon with Frantz Fanon’s writings on internalized racism and the white gaze, was further developed as a result of this event.

Lordship and Bondage: The Birth of the Negro Superman, a composition by Lamar for the Living Earth Show, was founded in 2016 by a grant from the Jerome Foundation. The libretto of the piece contains quotations from Hegel, Nietzsche, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman.

To define his style and work, Lamar coined the labels “Negrogothic” and “doom spirituals.” Beyond his own “goth” style, Lamar asserts that the Negrogothic “circulates horror genres with colonial-racial questions” and is “about horror and romance together, the condition of black people in the American project.” These rhetorical innovations are associated with his value of “self-construction,” “specificity,” and illegibility as ways to guard against the reduction and appropriation of African American art.

Who is Laverne Cox’s twin?

Lamar, who hails from Mobile, Alabama, represented his sister’s pre-transition role in two episodes of the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Lamar is the identical twin of actress Laverne Cox.