Smile I would advise any 17-year-old to surround yourself with people who listen to you, nod when you speak, and smile when you enter spaces. Janet Mock 7
Beauty Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as... Janet Mock 6
Birthday My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu. Janet Mock 7
