Our Stories, Our Voices

Our Stories, Our Voices 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America

“Truthful and empowering.” —Booklist From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Nina LaCour, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an “outstanding anthology” (School Library Connection) of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America. This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including award-winning and bestselling writers—touches on a powerful range of topics related to growing up female in today’s America, and the intersection with race, religion, and ethnicity. Sure to inspire hope and solidarity to anyone who reads it, Our Stories, Our Voices belongs on every young woman’s shelf. This anthology features essays from Martha Brockenbrough, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Brandy Colbert, Somaiya Daud, Christine Day, Alexandra Duncan, Ilene Wong (I.W.) Gregorio, Maurene Goo. Ellen Hopkins, Stephanie Kuehnert, Nina LaCour, Anna-Marie LcLemore, Sandhya Menon, Hannah Moskowitz, Julie Murphy, Aisha Saeed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Amber Smith, and Tracy Walker.
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Charlie de Zeeuw@charlie_de_zeeuw
4 stars
Nov 1, 2021

I recommend people of all genders, ethnicities, political standpoints, to pick this book up. Nearly every essay hurts, and certainly every author brings her personal story in a way that will resonate with you some way. Whether you experienced sexual abuse, have been the victim of racism, or are part of the lgbt, you can feel the struggle of the authors. It often hurt for me to read, as a trans boy who has never experienced anything like cat calling or worse. To read about the every day struggles of women, and realising they face every more on top of this if they are not cis and white. It’s confronting, and I often needed to take breaks in between stories. It forms a knot in your belly which I believe we need to feel more often, as society. It is after all, our responsibility to untangle it.

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Alex Hill @mybookishworld
4 stars
Dec 5, 2021