Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More is a memoir and the debut book by Janet Mock, an American writer and transgender activist.

In Redefining Realness, Janet Mock describes her life as a transgender woman from childhood to adulthood.

Her parents eventually split up and at age seven Mock is sent to live with her father and brother, Chad, in Oakland, California.

While there, her father tries to instill masculinity into young Mock, pushing her to participate in sports and other activities that her brother enjoys.

Because of the transphobia she faces at Moanalua, Mock transfers to Farrington, the school where her brother and Wendi attend.

Mock decides she wants to undergo genital reconstructive surgery and gets an after-school job at a clothing store to save money.

Mock continues to work in the sex trade on Merchant Street with strict rules on what acts she will perform and for whom.

Their relationship is inconsistent for a while, and Mock makes a new friend in Mia, the woman who hired her for a People magazine job.

The book ends with a discussion of LGBT representation in the media and the perception that transgender women need to be out and visible at all times.

The campaign fulfilled 127 book requests from people who wished to read Redefining Realness but had financial constraints.

[5] On 30 January 2014, Mock posted a series of six videos on her YouTube channel discussing topics covered in her memoir.

[10] In the last video, Mock discusses reading at the library as a child, how stories about women who inspired her impacted her growing up, and how her book might be the same for young girls now.

[12] Redefining Realness is praised for being one of a small number of literary texts written by transgender people of color, especially ones that feature themes of reading.

[13] Redefining Realness has also been praised for its complexity in representation of transgender people of color and for combining Western and African structures of autobiography.

[13] A 2014 review of the book claims that while Mock's memoir is personal, it reaches across the queer, transgender, and female communities to relate to many people.

: On Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, TS Madison, and the Representation of Transgender Women of Color in Media", scholar Julian Kevon Glover complicates the popular reception of Redefining Realness.

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God was a significant influence in Mock's writing of Redefining Realness.

[12] Other Black female authors that were formative for Mock and her development of Redefining Realness were Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and Audre Lorde.

Green Jr., Redefining Realness was stated to do more than just tell a personal story as it builds from the tradition of earlier women of color writers, such as those Mock references in the memoir.