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Aug 14, 2019 · Janet Mock remembers when she saw the documentary Paris is Burning for the first time. She was in 10th grade, living in Hawaii, and had already socially transitioned her gender identity.
Mar 31, 2022 · Janet Mock—writer, activist, television host, director—has become a leading voice for transgender women of color in the twenty-first century. After beginning her career as a staff editor for People magazine, Mock launched into the public eye in 2011, when she shared her truths as a transgender woman of color with Marie Claire readers in a ...
Jun 1, 2015 · Let’s celebrate Caitlyn & use her moment to uplift trans folks facing insurmountable economic barriers for affirming healthcare. — Janet Mock (@janetmock) June 1, 2015. Jenner’s access as a wealthy woman (in her Vanity Fair spread, my favorite photo is the one where she’s sitting in her $180k Porsche) enabled her to pay for tens of ...
Mar 5, 2014 · Prolific feminist scholar Bell Hooks not only praises Janet Mock's memoir Redefining Realness ... It is a personal narrative of racial identity, abuse, sex work, poverty, medical transition, and ...
Sep 18, 2019 · Her story is simply amazing and inspirational. Growing up impoverished to divorced parents who both struggled with drug addictions, she managed to transition in her teens in the 1990s, a time when things were so much harder for transpeople. She largely self-funded her transition through the only available option—sex work—while being an ...
Jun 13, 2017 · Energy Transition. Janet Mock’s new memoir is a radical reimagining of the coming-of-age narrative ... Janet Mock holds up a velvet rope, lets us in, and ties us together. And we’ll never be ...
Janet Mock was born on March 10, 1983 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The second of five children, she was born as Charles. Her father is an African American man named Charlie Mock III, and her mother Elizabeth is Hawaiian and European. In her memoir, Janet Mock recalls knowing at a very young age that she was a girl born in a boy’s body.
