Rating: 5/5
05/23/2020 - 05/23/2020
"Many of us connect with each other through trauma and pain: broken people finding other broken people in the hopes of fixing one another."
"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, "The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself." If I wasn’t gonna fight for me, who else was?"
"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories matter and deserve to be celebrated and told."
"No amount of money, love, or support can protect you from a society intent on killing you for your blackness, and shows that a community that a community that has been taught that anyone "not straight" is dangerous."
"You sometimes don’t know you exist until you realize someone like you existed before."
Synopsis
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults.
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