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 21
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 28
Birthday My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu. Janet Mock 27
