GENERATION QUEER

A collection of illustrated profiles of a diverse range of young queer activists, grouped into three categories: organizers, artists, and educators.

Topping, the founder of Lavender Education and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, offers brief biographies based on interviews with youth leaders along with suggestions for aspiring activists. Each profile opens with a portrait of the subject captioned with an insightful quote from them, followed by two to three pages describing their work and achievements as well as fun, humanizing details about their hobbies and interests. The organizers section explains what community organizing is, how it’s been utilized in the past, and how it has roots in intersectional and Black civil rights movements. The artists section focuses on young creatives and emphasizes the importance of representation. The educators section highlights activists whose social justice work is related to schools and teaching. The final chapters are a call to action, outlining different forms of protest and addressing both young activists and adult educators. The author includes many helpful resources and suggestions for further learning throughout the book. Readers are likely to see their own identities reflected in these pages, which highlight the voices of people from many different gender, sexual, racial, and cultural identities. Final art not seen.

Joyful and inspiring.