She discloses deeply personal information about her medical transition and her journey to become the woman that she always knew she was. She talks at length about her time as a teen sex worker and honor roll student. She details the painful sexual abuse that she experienced at a young age. Throughout the book she richly recounts exploring and embracing both her black and Hawaiian identities. Redefining Realness is Janet Mock’s story of growing up in California and Hawaii as a low-income trans girl of color. Thus, the “and so much more” in the title is more than appropriate. It is a personal narrative of racial identity, abuse, sex work, poverty, medical transition, and survival. To call this book a memoir seems too little of a word. I sat down last weekend, intending to read for 30 minutes or so, and ended up devouring Redefining Realness cover-to-cover in five hours.
While I am a fast reader, it typically takes me a week or so to finish a book due to distractions and obligations. Prolific feminist scholar B ell Hooks not only praises Janet Mock’s memoir Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, & So Much More on its cover, but also says that she read the book in a mere evening.
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