Revolutionary Voices
4 Mar 2013 06:38 pmEditor: Amy Sonnie
Date completed: March 1, 2011
What I remember:
Another late winter read from a few years ago, this is an anthology of queer youth writing from the 1990s. These voices are a gathering of strength from young people, who are (queer or straight) so often overlooked, dismissed, patted on the head and told to wait their turn. So much passion is in these pages, and a reminder of how much has changed for LGBT people within the last decade, and of how much still needs to change. It made me feel old, but hopeful for the future. These writers are my contemporaries -- in a way, I am one of them. While reading it I thought: This is the kind of book that could have changed my life had I discovered it as a teenager. Today I'm thinking: why can't it change my life now?
Date completed: March 1, 2011
What I remember:
Another late winter read from a few years ago, this is an anthology of queer youth writing from the 1990s. These voices are a gathering of strength from young people, who are (queer or straight) so often overlooked, dismissed, patted on the head and told to wait their turn. So much passion is in these pages, and a reminder of how much has changed for LGBT people within the last decade, and of how much still needs to change. It made me feel old, but hopeful for the future. These writers are my contemporaries -- in a way, I am one of them. While reading it I thought: This is the kind of book that could have changed my life had I discovered it as a teenager. Today I'm thinking: why can't it change my life now?
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