Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Title
Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Description
Redefining Realness is a memoir written by Janet Mock about her life and her shaping of her own identity as a multiracial trans woman. Mock shares with the reader intimate details from her own upbringing, exploring what it means to be a woman through her complex family relationships and romantic and sexual experiences.
Following an article written about Mock by a journalist for Essence(check) magazine Mock realized she needed to correct the narrative, even if just to craft it herself. In writing this book, Mock joins a canon of autobiographical work by trans women that marks a turning point in contemporary gender relations. This book is completely vulnerable, telling stories of Mock’s own experiences with sex work, transmisogyny, and familial displacement, traumas that she shares with humility and grace with the overwhelming message of accepting one’s self for all the pain and hurt and ugly in our lives.
Following an article written about Mock by a journalist for Essence(check) magazine Mock realized she needed to correct the narrative, even if just to craft it herself. In writing this book, Mock joins a canon of autobiographical work by trans women that marks a turning point in contemporary gender relations. This book is completely vulnerable, telling stories of Mock’s own experiences with sex work, transmisogyny, and familial displacement, traumas that she shares with humility and grace with the overwhelming message of accepting one’s self for all the pain and hurt and ugly in our lives.
Creator
Mock, Janet
Publisher
Atria Books
Date
2014
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Book
Original Format
Book
Citation
Mock, Janet, “Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More,” An Archive of Trans Culture, accessed October 13, 2024, https://transcultural.oberlincollegelibrary.org/items/show/21.