Nevertheless, we persisted : 48 voices of defiance, strength, and courage

Call Number

• 170.44 N518 TEEN (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]

Physical Description

308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

A powerful collection of essays from actors, activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers, and teens, each writing about a time in their youth when they were held back because of their race, gender, or sexual identity-- but persisted. Among others: actress Alia Shawkat was told she was too "ethnic" for parts. Former NFL player Wade Davis bullied other gay classmates in an attempt to hide his own sexuality. Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr tells of her harrowing time in Auschwitz, where she watched her family disappear, one by one. They tell how they rose through the hate, overcoming the obstacles of their childhood to the hard-won lives they live today.

Contents

• Somewhere over the rainbow / For brown girls who blossom on their own time / Own world / Your golden thread / As is / Everyone plays / From high-jumping to life support to wheelchair basketball in Afghanistan / Nevertheless, love persisted / (Young) man in the mirror / A woman's place is in the kitchen / Be bigger than your story / Twisted-mouth / The unfinished Maulik Pancholy pilot / You, sailor / Triple threat / Making it better / They didn't succeed, I survived / Learning about empathy / The roots of embodied education / Not a doll / The quietly relentless / More than my womb / Just the beginning / #Nofilter / I didn't fit in, what a gift / Window seat / Reflections of a younger Silvercloud / Sometimes you are better off not knowing / How writing a college essay taught me more about myself than life / Nevertheless, I write / The new kid / Brown boy, white suburbia / The practice of self-love / Guts / Black ancestry and artistry wielded against the police state / I am not Susanne, I am Soulaima / We rise / Rewriting the rules / Beyond the baseline / My growth through drought / L'amour, maybe not / Writing my own story / The accidental activist