"This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence……" — 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 must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans, and strips trans women of their humanity."
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Janet Mock
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17 Quotes by Janet Mock
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but…
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We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is.…
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I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary…
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Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me.…
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Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the…
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According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not…
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Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don…
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My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper…
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It is not a woman’s duty to disclose that she’s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe…
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Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us…
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Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.
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My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
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