Janet Mock

I often feel failed by feminism.

— Janet Mock

I don't chase beauty trends.

— Janet Mock

Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.

— Janet Mock

I'm an island girl, so I love super bronzy skin!

— Janet Mock

Trans people are not a monolith.

— Janet Mock

We are multiplicities, and none of us live single-identity lives.

— Janet Mock

Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.

— Janet Mock

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

— Janet Mock

As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.

— Janet Mock

We exist in a culture where trans people are constantly delegitimized.

— Janet Mock

My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.

— Janet Mock

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

— Janet Mock

I think a lot of people are very interested in why other people are trans or why people are gay.

— Janet Mock

I get invited to a lot of college campuses, and administrators think it's going to be a lecture on 'trans-ness' or whatever.…

— Janet Mock

Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.

— Janet Mock

Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces…

— Janet Mock

One of the most difficult parts of 'The Trans List' was coming up with a list of 11 people. For me, what…

— Janet Mock

I came out, as not enough of our stories are told from our perspective. 'Marie Claire' was offering the chance to be…

— Janet Mock

We cannot and should not be reduced to just one sliver of ourselves, as it skews the truth of our lived experiences.

— Janet Mock

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything…

— 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

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans…

— Janet Mock

My first book was about grappling with my identity and transitioning medically and socially as a young person. At that point, it…

— Janet Mock

“When Aaron arrived at my place—a ground-floor studio fitting my full-size bed, desk, and TV—he came bearing gifts: The Artist’s Way by…

— Janet Mock

Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress,…

— 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

My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women…

— Janet Mock

There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across…

— Janet Mock

Media gatekeepers - editors, publishers, film studios and the like - need to begin investing in talent behind the scenes, developing and…

— 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

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

— 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

“Though we came from our native Hawaiian mother, Chad and I were perceived and therefore raised as black, which widely cast us…

— Janet Mock

“In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" anything. We were fully…

— Janet Mock

Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.

— Janet Mock

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

— Janet Mock

I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.

— Janet Mock

We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.

— Janet Mock

We are all part of a larger collective looking to create a more beautiful and just world.

— Janet Mock

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

— Janet Mock