The "Mock" Interview,or Piers should find a pier...and jump off it.

This week, Piers Morgan made a humongous blunder by misgendering and publicly ostracizing Trans woman and advocate Janet Mock, when he invited her onto his show to talk about her new book, Redefining Realness. Morgan, a man generally known for his compassionate and understanding nature and laid back interview style (even having been seen as an advocate and ally in some of the Gay community) seemed to set the whole country’s struggle for equality back ten years by rudely repeatedly alluding to Ms.Mock’s childhood and adolescent struggles, while simultaneously being overly interested in the way she revealed her gender identity to her boyfriend. Unfortunately I was unable to catch the interview(s), but the reason I chose this topic is because a great deal of women of color identify somewhere along the LGBTQIA++ spectrum, and to ignore the rights and struggles of women of color is a crime (and having their very being personhood, agency and soul called into question by what essentially boils down to a stranger is even worse.). Also, this story seemed globally relevant because in addition to this carnival show of blunders of an interview, the events happening at SOCHI, have spotlighted talks on gender, race, and sexuality, all of which I believe fall under my umbrella topic of “Race Relations and Women of Color”. I strive to be an informed member of society, while simultaneously uplifting and encouraging my sisters who struggle under both the yolk of the heteronormative patriarchy while being chained to establishment of institutionalized racism.

http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-transgender-20140206,0,1612052.story#axzz2shR0rGuQ