“Flawless was the single most influential person in my development as a human being and artist,” Zackary Drucker, a transgender artist and a producer of the Amazon show “Transparent,” said by email. “I can’t imagine anyone else believing in me with the passion and dedication that she did.” Ms. Drucker met Mr. Doroshow in 2001.

The performance artist Taylor Macfirst met Flawless Sabrina in 2002…

Re-read this again this morning. We visited a true Texas summer institution--the water park--recently, and while meandering down some “rapids” I began tallying the women wearing this word. 

Ceyenne Doroshow was raised in Brooklyn and fought very hard for her day-to-day survival as a transgender girl. Escaping into the kitchen and learning how to cook became a source of power for Ceyenne, and to this day she uses food to bring people together and get over their differences. Now a grown lady, she has been blessed to be an advocate, caseworker, program coordinator, advisor, parent, grandparent, ex-escort, lover, and friend.

  In Cooking in Heels, Ceyenne Doroshow offers up 40 Southern-style favorites with a Caribbean twist. As a transgender woman who was inspired to write her book while serving prison time for a prostitution conviction, Ceyenne might not seem like the most likely representative of home cooked family values. But her book, which is peppered with good humor and begins with the story of her life, shows that food and love are the ties that bind, and family is what you make it.

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Come see Ceyenne perform at the March 7th Red Umbrella Diaries!

Special Event: hosted and curated by Anna Saini 

Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City