All Boys Aren't Blue

I became familiar with George through The Grapevine, a YouTube series of panel discussions involving black millennials and the racial, gender, and sociopolitical issues that still impact us today. Getting to read his personal story, from childhood to early adulthood, was special while shedding light on the issues that queer Black youth continue to face within their families and out in the world. From sex, gender, and toxic masculinity, to the intersectionality of racism and homophobia, this self-proclaimed “memoir manifesto” is another personal account of one's experience growing up marginalized in a system that wasn't designed to uphold them–one that I think most would enjoy reading about, simply for its honesty and desire to not hide the truth from anyone.