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Sophie Cook

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Ex-RAF, motorbike racer, newspaper editor, Premier League football and rock photographer, self harm and suicide survivor and transgender.

Sophie Cook​ is a media personality and activist whose wide portfolio of work includes presenting, producing, writing and photography.

She became the first transgender woman to work in football’s Premier League as club photographer for AFC Bournemouth following her transition from Steve to Sophie in the summer of 2015.

Europe’s first trans TV newscaster, Sophie has hosted her own TV and radio chat shows and is an experienced broadcaster.

In April 2017 she was selected by the Labour Party to contest the East Worthing and Shoreham seat, increasing the Labour vote by 114% and narrowly missing out on becoming th
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Sophie Cook Well I've got some exciting news, it's official, my second book will be the novel 'Words That Kill'.

Words have consequences.
In a world where hate has …more
Well I've got some exciting news, it's official, my second book will be the novel 'Words That Kill'.

Words have consequences.
In a world where hate has more power than love.
Where it’s easy to blame ‘others’ for all of society’s failings.
Where hatred and bigotry fuel tabloid headlines.
Where the disenfranchised and forgotten have lost everything.
Where insidious lies find minds fertile for radicalisation.
Hate, planted as a seed takes hold and grows, ready to bloom.
And words have consequences…

Exploring themes of hate speech and radicalisation in the post-Brexit, post-Trump world and the actions that demonisation of vulnerable minorities can lead to.

Find out more about 'Words That Kill' and please support the crowdfunder at
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Not Today: How I Chose Life

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So you think you're a racist

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