Redefining realness

By Janet Mock

Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology), Biography, Women, Transgender people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, LGBTQ gender identity, Biographies, Gender Identity, Case studies, Cultural Heritage, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Sex role, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage, Transgenres, Transgender Persons, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Racially mixed people, Études de cas, Stonewall Book Awards, Gender identity, Identité sexuelle

Description: 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.