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125 reviews for:
Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real about Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
Amy Reed, Julie Murphy
4.13 AVERAGE
125 reviews for:
Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real about Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
Amy Reed, Julie Murphy
4.13 AVERAGE
I love getting to know more about people and their stories. This book is a powerful collection of stories that I highly recommend you read!
Really powerful stories. Unique in the way they explore their identities and create spaces for themselves sometimes against the odds. I'm going to study a few with my students next year!
Loved this feminist magnificence. Highly recommend.
Read for the Tropeical readathon prompt of: Read a Book with Multiple Authors.
My favorites in this collection were:
- "Her Hair Was Not of Gold"
- "Changing Constellations"
- "The One Who Defines Me"
- "Black Girl, Becoming"
My favorites in this collection were:
- "Her Hair Was Not of Gold"
- "Changing Constellations"
- "The One Who Defines Me"
- "Black Girl, Becoming"
I stan by an author who uses trigger warnings
Overall this was a strong essay collections. It's difficult because each writing style was so different. At times I felt the essays were geared towards younger readers and other times, they were for more mature teens. I do recommend this collection.
"Ours are the marginalized voices they refuse to listen to. This book, this act of resistance, says our stories matter. Our lives matter. Our voices will not be silenced."
It took me awhile to get through this anthology. As soon as I saw the subtitle: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America, I knew I wanted to read this. I also knew it would be hard. There are so many ways that our society treats young women poorly.
Women struggle with racism, sexism, and all the other isms. Young women don’t always realize that what happens to them happens to others. All people often internalize problems rather than understanding that the issue is with society not ourselves. Twenty-one essays about these issues got to me after awhile and I would need to take a break.
However, this is a good collection of writings. Amy Reed picked carefully and any young woman picking this book up will find someone to relate to. I hope that this book is found by lots of people.
It took me awhile to get through this anthology. As soon as I saw the subtitle: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America, I knew I wanted to read this. I also knew it would be hard. There are so many ways that our society treats young women poorly.
Women struggle with racism, sexism, and all the other isms. Young women don’t always realize that what happens to them happens to others. All people often internalize problems rather than understanding that the issue is with society not ourselves. Twenty-one essays about these issues got to me after awhile and I would need to take a break.
However, this is a good collection of writings. Amy Reed picked carefully and any young woman picking this book up will find someone to relate to. I hope that this book is found by lots of people.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I absolutely loved some of these entries and felt apathetic about others so it's averaging out as 3.75 stars for me. I would still recommend picking this up.
This anthology is an inspiring and harrowing look into what it is like to grow up in the United States over the past few decades. It is so important to not dismiss feelings or opinions and this book provided me with many experiences that I have experienced but even more that I will never experience as a white female. I highly recommend this anthology.