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Janet Mock
Janet Mock
American Writer
Born: Mar 10, 1983
Girl Life Me People Women You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people. Janet Mock
Politics Ignorance People Fears Young Insert Adult Boundaries Know Messy How Get Young People Themselves Prejudices Lives Things
To say that I loved school would be an understatement. It was my oasis, my sanctuary. Janet Mock
School Say Oasis Would Would-Be Understatement Loved Sanctuary
When I was 12, my brother and I moved back to Honolulu to live with our mother. Hawaii felt like another universe, and reflecting on it, I am struck by how much more open and accepting it was. Janet Mock
Mother Live Universe Honolulu Back Our Brother Struck More Hawaii Open Like Another Felt Accepting How Am How Much Reflecting Moved Much
I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors. Janet Mock
Personality Hide Girl Example Closed Doors Fine Something Only Could For Example Learned Closed Doors Behind Barbie Aspects Playing
Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother. Janet Mock
Father Critical Brother Stern Accept How Feminine Comparison Dainty
I was obsessed with 'The Velvet Rope' for a year straight, letting Janet Jackson's confessional lyrics lull me to sleep and comfort me when I felt lost. I felt that the album was the vehicle onto which Janet finally expressed her full self. Janet Mock
Me Year Lost Lyrics Finally Onto Self Vehicle Obsessed Velvet Comfort Felt Jackson Which Straight Rope Full Expressed Lull Letting Her Album Sleep
My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose. Janet Mock
Clothes Purpose Makeup Am Just Body
By the time I was a sophomore in high school, it had become routine for me to be sent home for wearing dresses. My mere presence in a skirt became an act of protest that would get me called out of class and into the vice principal's office. Janet Mock
Time Home Me Class School Become Out High Would Wearing High School Dresses Had Mere Sophomore Principal Became Protest Office Get Vice Sent Act Skirt Routine Presence By The Time
There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle. Janet Mock
Art You Class Master Nothing Hustle More Sterile Celebrity Than Conference Sitting Being Room Across Star Mundane Gray Treated
Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society. Janet Mock
Society Our Vital Curiosity Growth
I still have a YA-genre-series type of a book in me that I really want to tell. Janet Mock
Me Book Type Tell Still Want Really
If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them. Janet Mock
Work Thoughts People Willing Give New Ideas Educating Want Them Enlighten
We exist in a culture where trans people are constantly delegitimized. Janet Mock
Culture People Constantly Exist Where
I think a lot of people are very interested in why other people are trans or why people are gay. Janet Mock
Gay People Think Other Lot Very Interested Why
Trans people are not a monolith. Janet Mock
People
I grew up at a time in Hawaii where there were trans women around, so there were visible role models for me. At the same time, as a low-income trans girl of color, there were so many things that I didn't have access to. I didn't have access to a great education. I didn't have access to affordable healthcare. Janet Mock
Education Time Great Me Women Girl Visible Hawaii Color Around Access Healthcare Were Up Role Role Models Affordable Models Same Same Time Where Grew Low-Income Many Things
As someone who wasn't heavily supported or resourced as a young person when I was going through the hardest times of my life, I'm used to operating outside of systems. The trans movement has always been that way. Janet Mock
Life My Life Young Way Systems Someone Through Outside Supported Operating Always Been Times Person Going Movement Young Person Used Who Hardest
On my road to self-discovery, only certain terms were available - I didn't use 'trans' or 'transgender' until junior high school, but I was living as trans much earlier. Janet Mock
School Transgender Living High High School Only Road Until Terms Self-Discovery Were Junior Junior High Junior High School Available Much Certain Use Earlier
I get invited to a lot of college campuses, and administrators think it's going to be a lecture on 'trans-ness' or whatever. But when young people get there, their questions are about just life. Janet Mock
Life People College Whatever Young Think Administrators College Campuses About Invited Lecture Lot Questions Get Going Just Young People
There's a burden of responsibility for me to show up correct - in my head, if I don't do it right, then I'll get shut out, and then other trans women of color will be shut out. Janet Mock
Me Women Burden Will Responsibility Other Correct Out Color Head Up Get Then Show Right Shut
Our differences are what make us great. Let us think about how we can extend this appreciation to people of color, undocumented immigrants, and other members of the community. Janet Mock
Great Appreciation People Differences Community Think Other Our Members Immigrants About Color Make How Undocumented Us Let Us Extend
When you hear anyone policing the bodies of trans women, misgendering and othering us, and violently exiling us from spaces, you should not dismiss it as a trans issue that trans women should speak out against. You should be engaged in the dialogue, discourse, and activism that challenges the very fibers of your movement. Janet Mock
You Challenges Women Speak Out Policing Dialogue Issue Discourse Hear Very Movement Fibers Anyone Spaces Against Us Bodies Dismiss Should Engaged Your Activism Violently
We are multiplicities, and none of us live single-identity lives. Janet Mock
Live None Us Lives
One of the most difficult parts of 'The Trans List' was coming up with a list of 11 people. For me, what was important was to ensure that we were as diverse as possible across a lot of different intersections. Janet Mock
Me People Important Difficult Ensure Possible Diverse Most Parts Coming Were Lot Up List Different Across
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