| Variant title |
Twenty-one YA authors get real about injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America |
| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Local note | Joyner TRC copy 9781534408999 purchased in memory of James Thompson, 2021. |
| Interest age level |
Ages 14 and up |
| Interest grade level |
Grades 9-12 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Our stories, our voices. First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. New York : Simon Pulse, 2018 9781534409019 |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2017029042 |
| ISBN | 9781534408999 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1534408991 (hardcover) |
