Pose: Season 3/ Episode 7 [Series Finale] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The time has come to watch, for the final time, the legendary cast of Pose live, werk, and THRIVE!
Janet Mock
Pose: Season 3/ Episode 6 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
In the penultimate episode of the series, it’s time for Angel’s wedding, and Elektra truly went all out, but Esteban will not be outdone.
Pose: Season 3/ Episode 4 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Pray Tell heads back to PA, where he was born and raised to face his mom, aunties, childhood crush, and the church that was the root of all his abandonment.
Pose: Season 3/ Episode 3 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Elektra’s origins, as well as the House of Abundance, is dived into, as we see Elektra become the mother she didn’t have.
Pose: Season 3/ Episode 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Three years have passed since the events in the season 2 finale, and while much has changed, it ain’t all for the better.
Hollywood: Season 1 Episode 6 “Meg” – Recap/ Review with Spoilers
Between the Klan, an overzealous lawyer, and the return of Ace, does “Meg” stand a chance in being released?
HOLLYWOOD: Season 1 Episode 4 “(Screen) Tests” – Recap/ Review with Spoilers
The screentests finally begin, and so comes the question, between Rock and Jack, Claire and Camille, who will get the lead parts?
Pose: Season 2, Episode 10 “In My Heels” [Season Finale] – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
You already know if Janet Mock is writing or directing you are going to be shedding tears. Add in she is doing the season finale? HA! Grab some tissues, we’re crying together.
Pose: Season 2, Episode 9 “Life’s A Beach” – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
Elektra becomes the mother and person we expected to see, after the time jump, as she takes her daughters out to recover from a harsh summer.
Pose: Season 2, Episode 7 “Blow” – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
Unlike many times before, the community comes together not when it is down or recoiling, but while standing tall, and with elders watching over them.
Pose: Season 2, Episode 4 “Never Knew Love Like This Before” – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
While Pose has always kept it real to the hairline, it decides to get a bit too real, and you may not be prepared for what comes.
Pose: Season 2, Episode 3 “Butterfly/Cocoon” – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
As we are given multiple reasons to celebrate, there is one major blemish that will likely ruin the in-house parade you’ll be having.
Pose: Season 2, Episode 2 “Worth It” – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
After a long period, years, of making herself smaller, Elektra is reborn. As that happens, Blanca too reaches new heights as she finally opens her nail salon.
Pose: Season 1/ Episode 6 “Love Is The Message” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Pray Tell gets center focus as we come upon the final days of his boyfriend, Costas. Though, we also get to see someone try to dust Blanca’s cobwebs.
Pose: Season 1/ Episode 4 “The Fever” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Elektra and Pray Tell take center stage as realness becomes about more than just the physical but addressing how you feel and are inside.
Pose: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Giving and Receiving” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
It’s Christmas time and as Elektra gives herself a gift, House of Evangelista makes sure everyone gets one.
Collected Book Quotes: Surpassing Certainty — What My Twenties Taught Me
Best Of And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And…
Surpassing Certainty (What My Twenties Taught Me): Part 2/ Chapters 15 [End of Book] – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
It’s the end! Not just of the book but also for Troy and Janet’s relationship for Aaron has become a consistent force in her life so Troy really has no place in it. Despite his attempts to win her back.
Surpassing Certainty (What My Twenties Taught Me): Part 2/ Chapters 12 to 14 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
Just as Janet’s professional life is just consistently reaching new highs, her personal life seems to remain at an all time low – in terms of Troy.
Surpassing Certainty (What My Twenties Taught Me): Part 1/ Chapters 6 to 8 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
It seems to be the beginning of the end for Troy and Janet. Especially as she comes to terms with the idea that he isn’t a final destination but a retreat. One which allows her to recover from the various pains life has thrown at her. Yet, not a place she can see herself permanently…
Never Before with Janet Mock: Season 1 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
How Oprah interviews like a therapist, Janet handles her guest like old friends from high school she is catching up with.
Collected Podcast Quotes: Never Before with Janet Mock
Best Of My motto in life has always been: If somebody says “No,” you’re talking to the wrong person. — “Episode 10: Kris Jenner” Never Before with Janet Mock When you’re a fairly friendless child, […] you develop really intense relationships with media. — “Episode 5: Lena Dunham.” Never Before with Janet Mock “I had already…
Daytime Divas: Season 1 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
I never thought I would find myself calling a show a “Guilty Pleasure.” If only because I operate on the Shonda Rhimes definition which is “[…] like saying ‘I’m embarrassed to say I watch it but I can’t stop.’” However, Daytime Divas is such a mess. Of which Vanessa Williams barely keeps everything together and,…
Surpassing Certainty (What My Twenties Taught Me): Part 1/ Chapters 3 to 5 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
Throughout chapters 3 to 5 of Surpassing Certainty, we finally get to see Janet experience a healthy relationship. Not one rooted in sex, being used, or anything like that, but the type of love which seemingly alluded her and seemed to be all but a Hollywood fabrication.
Daytime Divas: Season 1/ Episode 7 “Truth’s a Mutha” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As always, the guest to The Lunch Hour shake things up. But, this time around, it isn’t just the people on the dais who cause trouble and drama for Maxine and company.
Surpassing Certainty (What My Twenties Taught Me): Introduction to Chapter 2 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
In Janet Mock’s first book, Redefining Realness, there is a bit of a time jump from chapter 17, when she gets her reassignment surgery, to 2009. In that time period, we miss out on so much. Primarily the years of which Janet’s physical body matched who she mentally and emotionally is. The second round of…
Never Before with Janet Mock – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
As a sort of follow-up on a small part of the monthly “What is to come” post, let me add Janet Mock to great English speaking interviewers. Below, there is a reiteration about who Mock’s peers are and then how she is similar and yet unique to them.
The Trans List – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) The Trans List, in many ways, seems like the thereafter or “Where Are They Now” sequel to Laverne Cox’s The T Word. For with each struggle as a child, teen or young adult, you have this person who made it. They sometimes aren’t 100% sure how, but here they are. Alive,…
Redefining Realness (My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More): Part 3/ Chapters 11 to 18 [End of Book] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview You may, and will, call me Janet. Review (with Spoilers) With the start of Part Three comes Janet transitioning and beginning proper hormone therapy. With this, though, it seems a lot of the ease she has had up till now starts to diminish as she tries to push her realness pass simply knowing she…
Redefining Realness (My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More): Part 2/ Chapters 7 to Chapter 10 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview With her move back to Hawaii, you’d think things would have changed, but it seems this new start is really just a different location. Review (with Spoilers) The focus in this chapter is Mock’s return to Hawaii which seemingly, despite her returning to her mother, doesn’t seem all it is cracked up to be….
Redefining Realness (My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More): Part 1/ Intro to Chapter 6 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview In the intro, Janet Mock introduces herself in her own terms and prepares you for the journey ahead. Review (with Spoilers) Let me first say the following things: I am not transsexual so reading this book is a journey for me in order to gain some sort of, for a lack of a better…
Collected Quotes from Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
“Living by other people’s definitions and perceptions shrinks us to shells of ourselves, rather than complex people embodying multiple identities.” — Redefining Realness: Chapter 18 “New York, 2009” – Page 249 “I could no longer maintain the shiny, untarnished, unattainable facade of that dream girl. […] In mere moments, through the intimate act of storytelling,…