A review by jentjentjent
When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World by asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

5.0

Infinite gratitude to the author, Patrisse, for sharing her pain and joy growing up Black and queer in America. Her entire memoir has beautiful, powerful, intense, and emotional stories, mostly focusing on her relationship with her father and brother who are in and out of wrongful incarceration sentences. She talks a lot on mental health and the vicious cycles created by white supremacy and structural racism. The second third focuses more on police murders and the formation of Black Lives Matter. Her whole story was moving, but the ending is really what got me. She has created a life for herself built out of pain and power to love as much as she can.