Quotes by Janet Mock

Janet Mock

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.

Fighting

Pain

Years

Anytime that we – and when I say “we,” I mean feminine people, trans feminine folk, women – do anything that is centered on our own pleasure or desire, it’s seen as frivolous. But learning how to love your own body and finding pleasure in something that has brought you pain [in the past] is so important. I think that it’s probably a greater struggle for trans folk, because we struggle more with our bodies.

Love You

Pain

Struggle

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

Mock

Space

Stingy

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.

Expectations

Powerful

Race

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

Desire

Men

Say Anything

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 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.

Inspiring

Makeup

Teenager

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.

Book

Pride

Writing

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 let’s be clear: Trans women are women.

Desire

Men

Secret

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.

Believe

Empowering

Real

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. 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.

Focus

Lying

Safe

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Believe

Black

Book

Car

Care

Children

Circumstances

Color

Dad

Desire

Determination

Different Experiences

Empowering

Expectations

Extremes

Fall

Fighting

Focus

Girl

House

Humanity

Ideas

Identity

Inspire

Inspiring

Jobs

Journey

Justice

Love You

Lying

Makeup

Men

Mock

Pain

People

Perspective

Powerful

Practice

Pride

Quests

Race

Real

Rights

Safe

Say Anything

Secret

Self

Space

Stingy

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Quotes by Janet Mock

Janet Mock

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.

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

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

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.

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. 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.

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