Dec. 31, 2012 at 3:30pm with 19 notes
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2012: The Year I Found My Voice + the People, Events & Stories that Moved Me

Haven’t updated my blog in a long while, but I felt it necessary to summarize the year that I found my voice, the year that brought about significant change, the year where I fulfilled a personal dream of truly writing stories that matter to me for a living. 

Jan. 9, 2012 at 1:03pm
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I've never been more vulnerable than I am in episode 21 of the Missing Piece Podcast, where my guy Aaron forces me to talk about writing my book. It's a look into how creativity, love and art affects a relationship.

The Missing Piece Podcast with Aaron Tredwell and Janet Mock is dedicated to authenticity and transparency when it comes to showing what relationships really look like.

Jan. 3, 2012 at 11:10am with 14 notes
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What has 2011 taught me? That sharing my truth set me free. I’m no longer bound or defined by the things that have happened to me. Because I tell my story, because I share what matters to me most, I have, which is still surreal to me, inspired other people, empowering them to become their dreams.

In my latest blog post, I reflect on 2011, a year that saw me step forward publicly as a trans woman, changing my life forever and establishing my commitment to live visibly in the hopes of altering society’s views on what it means to be transgender.

Dec. 7, 2011 at 12:06pm with 31 notes
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My First xojane Column: How I Told My Boyfriend I Was Born a Boy

Though many guys I’ve dated do not and may never know the gender history of the girl they randomly made out with on the street, I have relayed my story to a select few, including the man of my dreams.

Mar. 29, 2011 at 8:43pm with 15 notes
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You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.
— Tina Fey, on not being “precious” about your writing, to The New Yorker
Feb. 16, 2011 at 9:37pm with 8 notes
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This is what my memoir Fish Food currently looks like - in addition to seven chapters fully drafted and a sea of journals, notes and free writing from the past three years. 

This is what my memoir Fish Food currently looks like - in addition to seven chapters fully drafted and a sea of journals, notes and free writing from the past three years. 

Dec. 25, 2010 at 12:41pm
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My boyfriend Aaron published my first blog Musings on Love. It’s now my first book, a story about a girl who becomes fully herself after learning to love. What a Christmas surprise!

My boyfriend Aaron published my first blog Musings on Love. It’s now my first book, a story about a girl who becomes fully herself after learning to love.

What a Christmas surprise!

Nov. 23, 2010 at 2:03pm with 2 notes
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The real writer is who they were between 9 and 15.
— Zadie Smith on the solidified identity of a writer (via Charlie Rose interview in 2005)
Oct. 26, 2010 at 8:10am
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How does a memoirist communicate their truth? You detach from your story, draw from your well, and write without the fear of what others will think.
— Summarizing Jen Grisanti, in podcast with Tracy McMillan (“I Love You And I’m Leaving You Anyway”)
Oct. 21, 2010 at 7:51am with 16 notes
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The middle of a novel is a state of mind. Strange things happen in it. Time collapses. I sit down to write at 9 a.m., I blink, the evening news is on and I’ve written four thousand words, more words than I wrote in three long months, a year ago. Something has changed…If you go outside, everything flows freely into your novel…You open the paper – every single story in the paper is directly relevant to your novel…You cannot believe how in tune the world is with your unfinished novel right now and if it isn’t published next Tuesday maybe the moment will pass and you will have to kill yourself. Magical Thinking makes you crazy – and renders everything possible…Every writer has a Magical Thinking tale to tell, or several.
— Zadie Smith, “Magical Thinking” in her 2009 essay collection, Changing My Mind