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Janet Mock (born March 10, 1983) is an American writer, television producer, and transgender rights activist. Her debut book, the memoir Redefining Realness , became a New York Times bestseller. She is a contributing editor for Marie Claire and a former staff editor of People magazine's website.
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- Redefining Realness, trans activism
Janet Mock is the New York Times bestselling author of two memoirs, Redefining Realness (2014) and Surpassing Certainty (2017) about her journey as a Black and Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) trans woman. She’s also a writer, director and producer, most known for her path-clearing and historic work on the Peabody and Emmy award-winning series ...
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.
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me traces Janet’s journey navigating young adulthood and all its universal growing pains. It’s a memoir that centers the years in her life when she was not public about her trans identity. Official website for writer, director and activist Janet Mock. Read her bio, her books Redefining Realness ...
Apr 30, 2021 · Published April 30, 2021 Updated July 13, 2021. A year and a half ago, Janet Mock, a writer, director and executive producer on the FX drama “Pose,” began to plan a wedding. A big wedding. In ...
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Mar 24, 2019 · March 24, 2019. The writer, television presenter, and activist Janet Mock speaks candidly about her youth, the challenges of reporting on her own life, and her struggle to find freedom in her body ...
Janet Mock is the New York Times bestselling author of two memoirs, Redefining Realness (2014) and Surpassing Certainty (2017), a writer, director and producer on Ryan Murphy’s FX series Pose, for which she made history as the first trans woman of color to write and direct an episode of television with the landmark script, “Love Is the Message.”
