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Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
Joe Biden, Sarah McBride
4.45 AVERAGE
669 reviews for:
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
Joe Biden, Sarah McBride
4.45 AVERAGE
This is a good memoir, very true to its title. It is mostly about love and loss and grief and building connection, but all of that happens to a person who happens to be trans and who has a career in activism and social justice. I appreciate so much that we are at a point where a memoir by a trans person doesn't have to be explicitly and only about being trans. This is more a mix of love story and political memoir, with a trans perspective. Pretty revolutionary.
A moving memoir about love and loss and the fight for trans rights from one of America's top activists. Great on audio narrated by the author herself, this was a heartfelt look at two transgender people's love story, the pain of watching a loved one lose a battle to cancer and the ongoing fight for trans equality in America.
CW: death from cancer
CW: death from cancer
emotional
hopeful
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medium-paced
"Vulnerability is often the first step on the path towards justice. Vulnerability breeds empathy. Empathy fosters support. Support leads to action."
Coming out is already be an intimidating experience for many, but to do it again and again on a national stage in the hopes to change one's community takes unfathomable courage. Sarah McBride never set out to make history. But as a political activist who happens to be transgender, she became the first openly transwoman to work at the White House under the Obama Administration, to legislate LGBTQ+ inclusivity bills in Delaware, and became the first openly transgender state senator.
In her memoir "Tomorrow Will Be Different," she shares the hurdles she's faced throughout her political career, coming out, and losing her husband to cancer just days after they were married. The politically-focused aspect isn't as engaging as I hoped it would be, but it's necessary to read in order to truly understand how bills currently going on in Texas, the Don't Say Gay Bill in Florida, and transphobia takes hold. Despite the challenges she faces, McBride is also open about the privileges she also has, addresses issues in what it means to be "pass" as a transwoman based on her looks, and reiterating how important intersectional activism is. She lays out the political scope of the LGBTQ+ community and her personal experiences with vulnerability and honesty that really paints a deep portrait of the importance of treating transgender individuals with dignity and respect, and what happens when we have ignorant people in power. This is a definite inspiring must-read.
Coming out is already be an intimidating experience for many, but to do it again and again on a national stage in the hopes to change one's community takes unfathomable courage. Sarah McBride never set out to make history. But as a political activist who happens to be transgender, she became the first openly transwoman to work at the White House under the Obama Administration, to legislate LGBTQ+ inclusivity bills in Delaware, and became the first openly transgender state senator.
In her memoir "Tomorrow Will Be Different," she shares the hurdles she's faced throughout her political career, coming out, and losing her husband to cancer just days after they were married. The politically-focused aspect isn't as engaging as I hoped it would be, but it's necessary to read in order to truly understand how bills currently going on in Texas, the Don't Say Gay Bill in Florida, and transphobia takes hold. Despite the challenges she faces, McBride is also open about the privileges she also has, addresses issues in what it means to be "pass" as a transwoman based on her looks, and reiterating how important intersectional activism is. She lays out the political scope of the LGBTQ+ community and her personal experiences with vulnerability and honesty that really paints a deep portrait of the importance of treating transgender individuals with dignity and respect, and what happens when we have ignorant people in power. This is a definite inspiring must-read.
Sarah McBride is truly an inspiration to not only those in her community but people around the world! Her memoir was really enjoyable on audio and really emotional at times when she shares her late husbands struggle with cancer. Definitely a book everyone should read or listen to!
“Tomorrow Will Be Different” by Sarah McBride it a touching (and at the same time, devastating) memoir about Sarah’s life from the moment she first came out as trans and into the present. In that span of time, she accomplished many things, including getting transgender people access to health care and prohibiting discrimination. But before Sarah came out to the world, she was the student body president at American University. Sarah had always been interested in politics, and her story starts pre-transition where we get to know her as a fearless and compassionate leader at university. We even learn that Sarah had been working on campaigns and giving speeches since she was very young. It was her early interest in politics that lead her to AU. And it was that very same interest that was also one that stood in the way of her being able to fully be herself. Sarah was worried — understandably so — that coming out as transgender would interfere with her future career as a politician.
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I highly recommend this book! Sarah is a great inspiration for queer and trans people in our country! She has a beautiful story that deserves to be shared! Thank you for this!
This was a great book, albeit a little hard to get through right now, reliving the 2016 election and all that, but overall, was a great history to look into.
3.5 stars. I guess I didn’t realize it would be a memoir — I was expecting more of a general non-fiction about the trans rights movement. It was incredibly moving both between the utter joy and fulfillment Sarah faced living her authentic life and succeeding in politics and forwarding trans rights, and also in the death of her husband, another trans rights advocate named Andy.
I definitely recommend this book for fans of memoirs. They’re just not typically the type of book I pick up unless they’re by a comedian to be honest.
I definitely recommend this book for fans of memoirs. They’re just not typically the type of book I pick up unless they’re by a comedian to be honest.
informative
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medium-paced