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Resource Center for Gender & Sexual Diversity at UCSB

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Thanks @janetmock for gracing UCSB with your words. We hope you enjoy the rest of SoCal #RedefiningRealness tour!

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"The reductive nature of the media & our stories." #JanetMockUCSB

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"Media engagement has been the most difficult. Interviewers haven't read the book, but think they know what it's all about."

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Biggest positive of this memory is for communities that aren't mine to identify with my story. #JanetMockUCSB

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"As staff, intervene in those moments & advocate for your students." #JanetMockUCSB

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"Young people know exactly what they want. My peers weren't intolerant, admin was." #JanetMockUCSB

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"I think I get hit on by everyone." Yassss. #JanetMockUCSB

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Short Q&A

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Redefine Realness and stop the interrogation of trans* people's bodies & identities. #JanetMockUCSB

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"Realness is a community word. Redefine Realness because it is a perfect word to validate our authenticity." #JanetMockUCSB

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Q: Why did you choose your book title?

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Respectability politics are bullshit. The mainstream LGBT movement is for white, cis, men. #JanetMockUCSB

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"Recognize that legacy of resilience and survival" -@janetmock on the stonewall rights. #JanetMockUCSB

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We can start by recognizing it as work. Not arresting sex workers, but giving them rights. #JanetMockUCSB

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"Underground economy has been a form of survival. It is not a space I want to celebrate, but not stigmatize either." Janet mock on sex work.

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College is not built for TWoC and PoC. These systems were not made for you. #JanetMockUCSB

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"She made me love being brown." #JanetMockUCSB

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"It fed me to see Beyoncé in that video...I was not represented in the video but Beyoncé & Destiny's Child were..." #JanetMockUCSB

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"I felt like it was a chapter in which I could be all of me." #chapter14 #JanetMockUCSB

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Reading Chapter 14 #JanetMockUCSB