Janet Mock famous quotes

03-24-2025

This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. Itâ€™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.
-- Janet Mock

#Practice #Ideas #Humanity
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 laughed at, I spent my younger years internalizing and fighting those stereotypes.
-- Janet Mock

#Pain #Fighting #Media
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 they don't want it to exist.
-- Janet Mock

#Badass #People #Trying
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, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. Itâ€™s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.
-- Janet Mock

#Determination #Journey #Self
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 their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.
-- Janet Mock

#Inspiring #Thought Provoking #Listening
Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.
-- Janet Mock

#Space
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 that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. I hope that my being real with you will help empower you to step into who you are and encourage you to share yourself with those around you.
-- Janet Mock

#Real #Believe #Empowering
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 love. As there are many kinds of women, there are many kinds of men, and many men desire many kinds of women, trans women are amongst these women. And letâ€™s be clear: Trans women are women.
-- Janet Mock

#Men #Secret #Desire
Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
-- Janet Mock

#Fall #Color #Justice
Our visibility shouldnâ€™t be subject to such extreme circumstances.
-- Janet Mock

#Visibility #Circumstances #Extremes
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 lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements.
-- Janet Mock

#Fall #Rights #Justice
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 short, powerful statement assured me that I have the freedom, in spite of and because of my birth, body, race, gender expectations, and economic resources, to define myself for myself and for others.
-- Janet Mock

#Powerful #Race #Expectations
It is not a womanâ€™s duty to disclose that sheâ€™s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe for a myriad of reasons. We must shift the burden of coming out from trans women, and accusing them of hiding or lying, and focus on why it is unsafe for women to be trans.
-- Janet Mock

#Lying #Focus #Safe
My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper package, which read â€œall the flavor of being a girl.â€.. In the car, I draped the black lanyard around my neck with a single green plastic balm dangling. I proudly dangled my girlhood in all its fruitiness. It cost only $2.99.
-- Janet Mock

#Girl #Car #Black
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing â€œthe mostâ€, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.
-- Janet Mock

#Teenager #Makeup #Hair
Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me. But Iâ€™m the parent and youâ€™re the child and it is not your job to love me the way I love you. My love for you is unconditional and no matter what you decide in your life I will love you. Doesnâ€™t mean I have to like it, but I will always love you. Love, Dad
-- Janet Mock

#Jobs #Children #Dad
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 the work that I do and what the purpose of me writing this book was about.
-- Janet Mock

#Book #Writing #Pride

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