Janet Mock Quotes

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• Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and…
• We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to…
• I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act…
• This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming…
• Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me. But I’m the parent and…
• Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim,…
• According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot device to be…
• Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and…
• My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper package, which read “all the…
• It is not a woman’s duty to disclose that she’s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe for a myriad of reasons.…
• Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This…
• Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.
• My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional…
• I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of respect, desire, and…
• Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.
• Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
• He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about…

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