Redefining Realness, Janet Mock
Redefining Realness, Janet Mock
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Redefining Realness
My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Author: Janet Mock

Narrator: Janet Mock

Unabridged: 8 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/25/2015

Synopsis

With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population. Though undoubtedly an account of one woman’s quest for self at all costs, Redefining Realness is a powerful vision of possibility and self-realization, pushing us all toward greater acceptance of one another—and of ourselves—showing as never before how to be unapologetic and real.

About Janet Mock

Janet Mock is a writer and advocate, lauded by the Anti-Violence Project, the Center for American Progress, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. A graduate of the University of Hawaii, she has an MA in journalism from New York University, worked as an editor at People.com, and appeared in HBO's The Out List.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Raymond

I'm not the biggest fan of memoirs per se, and many trans memoirs are pretty dry, redundant, and focused on white trans men. I even *am* a white trans man but most of them exhausted me. I transitioned about 14 years ago, have worked around the queer community for nearly 20 years, and have recently f......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

Appreciated this honest and courageous memoir about a Black and Indigenous woman’s transition into womanhood. Janet Mock writes with candor about growing up in a dysfunctional yet loving family, her pain and then acceptance about her gender identity, and the difficult yet powerful steps she took to......more

Goodreads review by Heather K (dentist in my spare time)

I've been interested in Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock for quite some time, so much so that I bought the book in paperback (a rare thing for me). I was hoping that the book would blow me away, and it truly did. I consider myself well-educated o......more

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