Our Stories, our Voices : : 21 YA Authors get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing up Female in America
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Call Number: Teen 305.42 Ou, Teen Book / Nonfiction / Social Issues
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My immigrant American dream / Sandhya Menon -- Her hair was not of gold / Anna-Marie McLemore -- Finding my feminism / Amy Reed -- Unexpected pursuits: embracing my indigeneity & creativity / Christine Day -- Chilled monkey brains / Sona Charaipotra -- Roar / Jaye Robin Brown -- Easter offering / Brandy Colbert -- Trumps and trunchbulls / Alexandra Duncan -- Tiny battles / Maurene Goo -- These words are mine / Stephanie Kuehnert -- Fat and loud / Julie Murphy -- Myth making: in the wake of hardship / Somaiya Daud -- Changing constellations / Nina LaCour -- The one who defines me / Aisha Saeed -- In our genes / Hannah Moskowitz -- An accidental activist / Ellen Hopkins -- Dreams deferred and other explosions / Ilene (I.W.) Gregorio -- Not like the other girls / Martha Brockenbrough -- Is something bothering you? / Jenny Torres Sanchez -- What I've learned about silence / Amber Smith -- Black girl, becoming / Tracy Deonn Walker.
In this collection of essays, young adult authors explore their experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America. They explore themes on the intersection of race and gender; women and weight; first sexual experience; the devastation of rape culture; and much more. -- adapted from jacket.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon Pulse, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: xii, 288 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781534408999
1534408991
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Reed, Amy Lynn,
SUBJECTS
Young women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Equality -- United States.
Feminism -- United States.
Equality.
Feminism.
Young women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.