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Janet Mock Quotes

American - Writer | March 10, 1983 -

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

Beautiful World Looking Create More

When I was a toddler, my father cut hair in the townhouse we had shared together in Long Beach, California, where Dad was stationed with the U.S. Navy. The buzz of clippers consistently hummed as he gave fades to his coworkers, my uncles, and my brother, but his clippers were never oiled and plugged in for my head.

Father Beach Together Brother Hair

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.

Myself Dress Identity People Hair

There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle.

Art You Hustle Sitting Nothing Gray

Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.

Me Hair Gender Enjoy Way Prevail

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

Storytelling Always Tell Own Been

We are all inundated with images that present a limited scope of what is considered beautiful. For American women, the closer she is to whiteness/paleness, cisness, thinness, and femininity, the more she is considered beautiful.

Women Beautiful Present American She

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

Makeup Evening Oil Coconut Cleansing

I wrote 'Redefining Realness' because not enough of our stories are being told, and I believe we need stories that reflect us so we don't feel so isolated in our apparent 'difference.'

Believe Feel Enough I Believe Need

We must have the audacity to turn up the frequency of our truths.

Turn Up Must Audacity Frequency Our

I get invited to a lot of college campuses, and administrators think it's going to be a lecture on 'trans-ness' or whatever. But when young people get there, their questions are about just life.

Life People College Think Questions

I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people.

Ignorance Politics People Know Young

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