Janet Mock

American writer, director, producer, TV host and transgender rights activist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1983 · age 43

Janet Mock is an American writer, television producer, and transgender rights activist. Her debut book, the memoir Redefining Realness, became a New York Times bestseller. She is a contributing editor for Marie Claire and a former staff editor of People magazine's website.

Janet Mock is read about 154 times a day, in 20 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

Compare Claim

A life in dates

2020Essence Black Women in Hollywood AwardsAwardGLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak AwardAward2018Time 100Award2015Stonewall Book AwardAward2014“The ball culture is a space started in uptown Manhattan, in Harlem.”In their wordsOn the ball culture that’s portrayed in Pose in “On 'Pose,' Janet Mock Tells The Stories She Craved As A Young Trans Person” in NPR (2014Read the whole statement

1983Born10 March 1983

People around Janet

Close ties

Also in Deutsch

Media & music

Photos 1

In their own words 2

Janet Mock

2 statements, newest first

I did not, but that’s just my experience. I know a lot of people who do, and that’s where the burden of representation comes in.
On not feeling the need to have sex-reassignment surgery in “Janet Mock: ‘I’d never seen a young trans woman who was thriving in the world, Own words
The ‘pretty privilege’ can give you access to spaces, just like your able body gives you access.
On the beauty standards still imposed on trans women in “Janet Mock: ‘I’d never seen a young trans woman who was thriving in the world - I, Own words