Janet Mock

Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the…

— Janet Mock

Throughout the day, I like to spritz my face with a rose water for extra moisture.

— Janet Mock

In the evening, I use a cleansing oil - coconut oil also works - to remove makeup.

— Janet Mock

“she cleaned, scrubbing to the staticky rhythm of Hawaiian music playing from her silver clock radio.”

— Janet Mock

Hawaii was so integral to my journey. I was just there at the right time.

— Janet Mock

I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white…

— Janet Mock

Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract…

— Janet Mock

I grew up at a time in Hawaii where there were trans women around, so there were visible role models for me.…

— Janet Mock

We have to take care of our people. That's our work now. And it's going to be a lot harder than it…

— Janet Mock

“The misconception of equating ease of life with “passing” must be dismantled in our culture. The work begins by each of us…

— Janet Mock

This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We…

— Janet Mock

“The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.”

— Janet Mock

We have to organize. We have to build up coalitions across all of these people who are considered "the other." If we…

— Janet Mock

“Many people believe trans women choose to engage in the sex trade rather than get a real job. That belief is misguided…

— Janet Mock

I was obsessed with 'The Velvet Rope' for a year straight, letting Janet Jackson's confessional lyrics lull me to sleep and comfort…

— Janet Mock

A staple in my makeup bag is Black Opal's True Color Skin Perfecting Stick Foundation, which offers a range of colors with…

— Janet Mock

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots…

— Janet Mock

“Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just something he did. To…

— Janet Mock

I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something…

— Janet Mock

Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women…

— Janet Mock

Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a…

— Janet Mock

“This house was the only home he’d ever had, and he’d shared it with his mother up until two years before, when…

— Janet Mock

I don't have to explain anything to trans women. Trans women know exactly what's going on.

— Janet Mock

“Life is uncomfortable,' Wendi said, rolling her eyes as she remained focused on the dark streets ahead of us. 'You have to…

— Janet Mock

I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not…

— Janet Mock