Comments on: Sex Workers Matter: Sharing My Own Complicated Experience

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:31:40 +0000

Your grace, honesty and beauty has brought me to tears. You empower and inspire.

By: Myra

Myra — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:56:06 +0000

I admire your strength. You are beautiful and I LOVE the way you are fanning yourself with your dress. That was so wild, cool, sexy and fun. Go girl!

By: Katheen Geraty

Katheen Geraty — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:34:27 +0000

Dear Janet, thank you for sharing so deeply, so publicly – to educate and move me. Your honest story is compelling and I appreciate it and you. Continued courage & blessings to you, beautiful (from the inside out!) woman!

By: TimothyElement

TimothyElement — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:13:53 +0000

Amazing article and video…….THANK YOU! I am the father of a wonderful Princess Boy whom is now a young adult. I am now on the board of directors for his LGBTQQI youth organization in Santa Rosa, CA (Positive Images: posimages.org) and will do ANYTHING within my power to support and champion the rights of my TRANS brothers and sisters! We do panels where we speak to classes and trainings and the like to further educate folks on the reality of our community and its diversity and resilience. God BLESS you sister!

By: David Krolick

David Krolick — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 07:16:47 +0000

I came to know about you only recently (courtesy of Molly & John of the RadioDispatch podcast). Not that you need my or anyone else’s approval but I feel a need to let you know what a positive impression you have made on me. You’re extremely articulate and for lack of a better word, have a “presence” that is quite uncommon. Your “teachable moments” have been stellar without a hint of condescension. No doubt you have made and will continue to make real gains toward the general understanding and acceptance of gender differences. Your book is on my wish list. In fact, if i can hold out, it will be my next purchase after I finish “Dirty Wars” and “The New Jim Crow.”

Good luck with your book and your activism.

By: Lori Weinstock

Lori Weinstock — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 02:37:36 +0000

Janet-Thank you for your profound writing, your touching and authentic descriptions of the trans women who lifted you along your journey, and for giving the world yet another reminder how important it is for everyone to feel seen and heard. I’m starting your book tonight, and can only imagine how much I’m going to appreciate it, so thank you!
With great admiration,
Lori Weinstock, LCSW

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:25:35 +0000

Thank you Ms. Mock for your presence and views on what I believe is the “next” frontier in our moving toward 5th Dimension reality where we love who love because…… As a man of color and an admirer + of Trans women, Thank you.

By: lilyana

lilyana — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:22:58 +0000

This was a refreshing and beautifully written essay. You are seriously revolutionary in the things you are doing. Thank you for sharing this!

By: panopticon

panopticon — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:33:23 +0000

maybe if people didn’t have to scrabble in the dirt to survive because the rich use the power of the state to protect their extortionate behavior there would be no need for trans- people to do this in the first place.

janet, what is your opinion of this extortion of the powerless that we call capitalism?

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:32:36 +0000

In reply to Jess Dully. I wholeheartedly do not agree when it comes to women who choose to engage in sex work. Choice and agency is key here and Raymond is beyond problematic here and in addition to her damaging myths about trans women in her work.

By: Jess Dully

Jess Dully — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:15:10 +0000

Hi Janet! I’ve been reading Janice G. Raymond’s book: Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade, and in it she claims that sex work (all sex work) is violence against women. Would you agree or disagree with that premise and why?

By: Nicolette

Nicolette — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:51:26 +0000

It is so incredibly refreshing to read an account of sex work that isn’t wrapped up in shaming workers or feeling ashamed. As always, I think you’re wonderful.

By: isis king

isis king — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:46:13 +0000

So proud! Your going to help so many people with you story.

Love always.

By: sabine

sabine — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:40:48 +0000

was you fanning yourself with your skirt????….lol…love it!!!!

By: Ennis

Ennis — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:00:29 +0000

Love this! Will get the book very soon. Please, keep sharing and shining, Love. <3

By: Lv

Lv — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:54:43 +0000

Brillant essay! I can’t say I’ve experience any of the things you’ve experienced, but as a woman I completed understand and honor your wanting to survive by any means necessary…you much have been a fierce young woman. I so much appreciate that you’re using your hard travelled road to shine a light on these issues that affects the human race. I hope that others have an easier time in their journey. Thank you.