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

by Janet Mock

“You have to get used to it or you’re going to live your life trying to make people comfortable. I don’t care what people say about me because they don’t have to live as me. You gotta own who you are and keep it moving.”

We are more than our bodies; we all have different relationships to our bodies; our bodies are ours to do what we want with.

Feminist theorist and cultural critic bell hooks wrote, “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.”