She's the First Trans Woman of Color to Write, Direct & Produce a TV Show | Bold & Untold by MAKERS
Janet Mock, Writer, Producer, Director, & Trans Activist
They should be household names, but instead they’re hidden figures. Not anymore. In our new MAKERS series, we highlight the activists, advocates, and all-around awesome women who have been ripped out of modern history books. These are fearless feminists who put man on the moon and girls on the pitcher’s mound; transformed male-dominated industries like finance and construction; and paved the way for others succeed.
Video Transcript
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JANET MOCK: There was no adult trans people that I was seeing in media telling their stories.
All we want to do is to be listened to and to be truly heard and to be seen.
A series that, for the first time, centers trans women not as the sidekicks or as the martyrs who die to teach the cisgender characters what it means to be brave and to be oneself. I just knew that I should be in the writers' room
I do the work that I do so that girls everywhere growing up like I did not only see themselves, but realize that they too are deserving of an audience and deserving of being heard.
