Janet Mock

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Janet Mock (born March 10, 1983 in Honolulu ) is an American writer , journalist , presenter , screenwriter , producer and LGBT activist. Her first novel, the autobiography Redefining realness , was in the best-seller list of The New York Times listed. After previously serving as an editor at People , Mock is currently employed by Marie Claire and is the producer, director, and scriptwriter for FX production Pose . In addition to her work for Marie Claire , she also frequently writes guest articles for Elle , The Advocate and Huffpost .

Life

Janet Mock was born in Honolulu to an African-American and a Portuguese - Polynesian .Mock spent her childhood except for brief stays in Oakland and Dallas , Hawaii . She started in the ninth grade with a gender reassignment measure that she supported through prostitution at the age of 16. At this time, she also took the first name of her role model Janet Jackson . At the age of 18, she underwent in her first year at the College of gender reassignment surgery in Thailand .In 2004 she graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a Bachelor from in fashion marketing, two years later, she received a journalism - Master at the New York University .

Mock lives in New York and married photographer Aaron Tredwell in 2015. In February 2019, the couple filed for divorce.

Career

After graduating in 2006, Mock worked for People as an editor for five years . In 2011 , she publicly came out as transgender in an article by Marie Claire , the article was written from a first-person perspective , but the editor Kierna Mayo wrote it based on an interview with Mock. In retrospect, Mock expressed criticism of this because it was entitled I Was Born a Boy and it was claimed that she grew up and was brought up as a boy. According to Mock, she was born as a girl in a medically male body. She had no influence on the gender of her birth and had not only become a woman through the gender reassignment surgery. In 2014 she renewed her criticism of the content of the article when her autobiography was published, and she would not have chosen the title either. Lea Goldman, the editor of the article, commented on Twitter that both Mock and Mayo had objected to the title, but that she had chosen it herself, for which she apologized to both.

In 2012, Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster , signed Mock to write an autobiography about her youth. This was published in February 2014 under the title Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More . It is the first book by a transgender person who started gender reassignment measures as a teenager. Redefining realness reached a place in the New York Times Best Seller list among Hardcover - nonfiction . The book is about Mock's personal memories from 1989 to 2009 as a young, multiracial and meanwhile poor trans woman and contains statistics on the LGBT community and Mock's views on other social issues.

Shortly after her first book deal, Mock left People .In addition to her new job as a permanent editor at Marie Claire , where her main focus is on the representation of non-white people in films and television series and the role of trans women in the global beauty industry,She moderated the news program TakePart Live on the TakePart website , which belongs to the Participant film studio (including Spotlight , Green Book ), and her own cultural program So POPular! on the MSNBC streaming service Shift .She also acted as a live reporter for MSNBC from the red carpet at the White House Correspondence Dinner . She is also an occasional specialty correspondent for the CBS news magazine Entertainment Tonight .

In March 2016, Atria Books announced that Mock's second autobiography was in the works. The book with the working title Surpassing Certainty should pick up "where redefining realness left off" and be a "chronicle of Mock's journey in search of herself, her voice and her purpose in her twenties through a series of first experiences". In the same year she wrote a cover story for The Advocate about civil rights activist and activist of the Black Lives movement Matter DeRay Mckesson , and a feature about Nicki Minaj for Marie Claire . On December 5th, the documentary The Trans List aired on HBO . It was produced by Mock and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and is about the personal stories of eleven transgender personalities. Those affected were also interviewed by Mock, including Laverne Cox, Buck Angel , Caroline Cossey , Nicole Maines and Caitlyn Jenner .

In 2017, Mock's second autobiography, fully entitled Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me, was finally published. This treated Mocks career after her gender reassignment measure, among other things, their time at college, working as a dancer in a strip club, the first relationship with a sergeant in the Navy and its beginnings as an editor. The title is an allusion to the quote And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking by Audre Lorde (approximate German translation: "And in the end you will know with overwhelming certainty that there is only one thing that is more frightening than telling your truth. And that is saying nothing").

Since 2018 Mock has worked as a producer, screenwriter and director for the FX production Pose , conceived by Ryan Murphy , Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals , which premiered on June 3, 2018. Mock is the first non-white trans woman to be hired as a screenwriter and director for a television series in the United States. The production is about the New York ballroom culture of the 1980s and 1990s, in which mainly non-white members of the LGBT community called Houses compete against each other in artistic competitions. The characters have to fight primarily against homophobia and transphobia , racism and the HIV epidemic.

In 2019, Mock signed a three-year contract with Netflix , which guarantees the broadcaster the broadcasting rights to television series created by Mock and the opportunity to be the first company to watch films it has produced. The deal makes Mock the first non-white trans woman to sign a contract with a major film and television production company.

activism

In 2011, Mock submitted a video of her experience as a trans woman to the It Gets Better Project .

In 2012, Mock encouraged other trans women under the Twitter hashtag #GirlsLikeUs to tell their personal stories and to exchange ideas, which was very popular with LGBT-oriented websites. She also co-chaired the jury and hosted the GLAAD Media Awards , for which she was nominated.

In June 2013 Mock board member who was ACRUs Foundation , a charitable organization dedicated to LGBT rights and the conservation of great apes are used.

In 2014, Mock worked on a video that was produced for International Women's Day and that could be accessed on the corresponding day by clicking on the Google Doodle . That same year, Mock and Laverne Cox started a campaign to support transgender activist Monica Jones . After protesting against an anti-prostitution law, she was arrested for violating the same law. According to Mock and Cox, non-white trans women in particular are being illegally convicted for this. The sentence against Jones (30 days in prison and a $ 500 fine) was overturned, but the law remained in place. In the same year, Mock and Cox appeared on the cover of the magazine Candy, which is aimed at transgender readers, along with 12 other trans women such as Isis King .

Awards (selection)

In 2012, Mock received the Sylvia Rivera Activist Award from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project , which provides legal aid to transgender, intersex and non-binary individuals and is named after Sylvia Rivera , an LGBT activist who played an important role in Stonewall .

In 2013, Mock was featured in the first Trans 100 , an annual listing of the United States’s top 100 transgender activists, and Mock also gave the keynote address at an event in Chicago to launch the Trans 100 . In the same year she was also one of the Out100 , one of the “100 most captivating people of the year” according to Out , at the corresponding award ceremony she gave the laudation for Laverne Cox, which received a readers' award from the magazine. Mock was also featured in another top 100 list of LGBT activists. That GOOD Magazine led the hashtag #GirlsLikeUs, which they brought into being, and the associated positive response of many transgeschlechtlicher persons in the list.

In April 2014 she received the Inspiration Award from the LGBT organization GLSEN , and in October another award from the Feminist Press at the Women & Power Gala for her activism. At the end of the year, she was also featured on The Advocate's annual 40 Under 40 lists for the 40 most important people under 40, as well as on the list of the 50 most influential LGBT people in the media. She was also part of the Root 100, which honors "African-American leaders, innovators and culture-shapers" who are 45 years of age or younger. Finally, Mock received the Maggie Award for Media in the campaign category on a social network from the organization Planned Parenthood . Through her official Tumblr page #RedefiningRealness , Mock would have created a “strong and safe place for transgender voices” “online and beyond”.

In February 2015, Mock received the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award for Redefining Realness . The novel was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in the transgender non-fiction category . From Time Mock was named one of the "30 most influential people on the Internet" and the "12 new African-American leaders" at the end of the year . Fast Company named Mock one of the "Most Creative Business People" of the year.

At the Emmy Awards 2019 she was represented as a producer in the category Best Drama Series (with Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Nina Jacobson, among others ) for Pose , as well as for a Writers Guild of America in the category Best New Series .

Controversy

In February 2014, Mock was interviewed by Piers Morgan on his eponymous talk show on CNN about the release of her autobiography. After the conversation aired, Mock criticized Morgan on Twitter for sensationalizing her life and focusing more on her personal life and body after the sex reassignment surgery instead of her book. In a statement to BuzzFeed , Mock reiterated that Morgan was not talking about transgender issues, but about sensationalizing her life. Nor would he have asked her about her activism or the purpose of her autobiography. Since Morgan was criticized by several representatives of the LGBT community, he invited Mock again the following day. During the conversation, Morgan defended himself against the criticism and stated that she did not understand Mock's real problem with the interview, prompting them to explain the problematic way in which the everyday lives and bodies of transgender people were represented in mainstream media. explained.

As part of the discussion about Morgan's interview with her, Mock was invited to The Colbert Report on February 18, 2014 . Stephen Colbert finally questioned Mock humorously about her activism and her book. In April of the same year Alicia Mendez, a presenter of the news and satire channel Fusion , agreed to be interviewed by Mock in a kind of role reversal. Mock asked Mendez questions similar to the ones Morgan asked her. Mock Mendez asked, among other things, whether she had a vagina to prove her cisgender identity. Mock and Mendez wanted to show what, in their opinion, was inappropriate type of questioning that transgender people are often confronted with through the media.

In March 2016, Mock was scheduled to give a guest speech at Brown University . She said from as many students to the invitation by the organization Hillel because of their pro- Zionist anti-views and their opinions Palestinian racism had protested.

bibliography

  • Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More . Atria Books, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-47670-913-0
  • Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me . Atria Books, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-50114-579-7

Filmography (selection)

  • 2013: The Out List (documentary, interview partner)
  • 2016: The Trans List (TV film, production)
  • 2017: Daytime Divas (TV series, actress episode 1x7)
  • 2018: Breaking Big (TV documentary series, episode 1x11)
  • since 2018: Pose (TV series, production, also screenplay, director)
  • 2019: 2 Dope Queens (TV series, actress episode 2x3)
  • 2019: The Politician (TV Series, episode 1x3 directed)
  • 2020 Visible: Out on Television (TV documentary series, narrator 1x1)
  • 2020: Hollywood (TV series, production, also screenplay, direction)

Web links

Commons : Janet Mock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Mock, Janet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, writer, presenter, director, screenwriter and LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Honolulu , Hawaii