Future Black History Month: Janet Mock's Shining Authenticity
Fuse is once again celebrating an extended Black History Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Black History before our eyes. Today we pay tribute to Janet Mock, trans activist, journalist, producer and New York Times bestselling author.
Born in Honolulu to an African American father from Texas and a native Hawaiian mother, Mock came out as transgender on a national stage at age 27 with the profound Marie Claire “as-told-to” article "I Was a Boy." Later calling out the headline's "glaring and harmful misgendering," Mock said she was motivated to do the piece as a way to "reach across my little space in this world and speak directly to young people who feel different and feel like outcasts and struggle with their bodies and endure the teasing and the bullying and the taunting."
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