Redefining Realness

About Redefining Realness

Janet Mock's Redefining Realness (2014) is a memoir tracing her path from a childhood navigating poverty, family instability, and gender nonconformity in Hawaii and Texas to her transition and her career as a journalist and activist. Groundbreaking in trans literature for its refusal of the 'wrong body' narrative and its centering of race, class, and sex work as inseparable from gender identity, the memoir established Mock as one of the most important voices in contemporary trans writing and culture.