“ When I was younger, I remember taking pride in people’s well-meaning remarks: You’re so lucky that no one would ever know! or You don’t even look like a guy! or Wow! You’re prettier than most ‘natural… Janet Mock
“ When I think of identity, I think of our bodies and souls and the influences of family, culture, and community - the ingredients that make us. James Baldwin describes identity as the garment with whic… Janet Mock
“ Self-definition has been a responsibility I’ve wholeheartedly taken on as mine. It’s never a duty one should outsource. Of this responsibility, writer and poet Audre Lorde said, If I didn’t define mys… Janet Mock
“ My grandmother and my two aunts were an exhibition in resilience and resourcefulness and black womanhood. They rarely talked about the unfairness of the world with the words that I use now with my soc… Janet Mock
“ My family subscribed to this rigid belief system. They were unaware of the reality that gender, like sexuality, exists on a spectrum. By punishing me, they were performing the socially sanctioned prac… Janet Mock
“ Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just something he did. To do something didn't define you, I thought.I saw Dad through a dusty lens that disto… Janet Mock
“ Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumption… Janet Mock
“ In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" anything. We were fully brothers and sisters. Family appeared in the pile of rubber slippers and sand… 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
