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Trans Activist Janet Mock Finds Her Voice

2023/3/14
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Janet Mock: 我讲述了我在夏威夷的成长经历，父母的婚姻破裂，以及父亲对我的性别认同的压制。这些经历塑造了我对自我认同的探索，以及我后来在纽约的经历。我从12岁开始意识到自己的性别认同与社会期望不符，这种感觉可以用‘被困’来形容。在纽约，我从事媒体工作，并逐渐公开自己的跨性别身份。我的写作和媒体工作都与我的性别认同和社会经验密切相关。我努力通过自己的经历和故事，来促进对跨性别群体的理解和接纳。 Hilton Als: 我与Janet Mock的对话，深入探讨了她的人生经历，包括她在夏威夷的成长，在纽约的职业生涯，以及她作为跨性别活动家的社会贡献。她的故事展现了个人奋斗与社会变革之间的紧密联系，以及她如何通过写作和媒体工作，来影响社会对跨性别群体的认知。她的经历也反映了社会对性别认同的复杂性和多样性，以及个人在面对社会压力时，如何寻找自我认同和实现自我价值。

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Janet Mock discusses her early life in Hawaii, her parents' complex marriage, and her initial feelings of gender nonconformity.

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Janet Mock first heard the word “māhū,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside the male-female binary, when she was twelve. She had just moved back to Oahu, where she was born, from Texas, and, by that point, Mock knew that the gender she presented as didn’t feel right. “I don’t like to say the word ‘trapped,’ ” Mock tells The New Yorker’s Hilton Als. “But I was feeling very, very tightly contained in my body.” 

Eventually, Mock left Hawaii for New York, where she worked as an editor for *People *magazine. “[Everyone was] bigger and louder and smarter and bolder than me,” she tells Als. “So, in that sense, I could kind of blend in.” After working at People for five years, she came out publicly as trans; since then, she has emerged as a leading voice on trans issues. She’s written two books, produced a documentary, and signed a deal with Netflix. In 2018, she became the first trans woman of color to be hired as a writer on a TV series—Ryan Murphy’s FX series “Pose,” which just concluded its final season.

This story originally aired January 4, 2019