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Extra Credit Janet Mock Janet Mock told people that she wants to interrogate her experiences in her book to show how she can be relatable to people. She did not think much about her writing because they were just conversations and life experiences. Her writings included about the painful choices her parents made and how they treated her. Her mom wanted to do the best she can for her child, but the journey for her father was intense. Janet mentioned that her father was not there for most of her transitional journey. Her father is slowly trying to understand what her story is, and he has read the book. He is starting to be there for her and ask her question about who she is. Janet Mock having her best friend through her journey really helped her out. She was allowed who have numerous resources and safe space for her to be herself. She was allowed to dress the way she say herself and because of her best friend she did not feel alone. Most Trans identify people feel that the only person they have is themselves, because there is not a huge population of …show more content…
It is up to those identities to help create a purpose to allow their identity to become more apparent. She ends that as people we get to choose our family. That we have the opportunity to build our happiness with the people we get to choose and who enhances it. I wanted to ask Janet “You talk about intersectionality, and how can society make intersectionality more of an apparent identity, so society does not have to eliminate the separation on what issues to fight for (e.g Trans and Black issues).” Janet had brilliant and eloquence on presenting her book and talking about her experience. The take away message is that society cannot separate issues because one issue is connected to several other issues that are not being identified. Society has to incorporate intersectionality into the fight for social

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