I really love Rapinoe's memoir. I love that she's incredibly self-confident and proud of her many accomplishments and simultaneously focused on using her platform to amplify issues of racial injustice, as well as LGBTQ rights. The story of her life is more or less a vehicle for discussing race and sexuality issues. The part where she is frozen out of soccer for a while after kneeling in solidarity with/support of Colin Kaepernick is chilling, but as she reminds us, her whiteness allowed her to have her career back, something that Kaepernick is yet to be afforded.

I highlighted a bunch of wonderful statements, but Libby ate them, so I'll spare you a dozen quotations.

There is surely valid criticism of Rapinoe using her platform, rather than giving the mic to the people she is speaking for/about/in advocacy of. For better or worse, though, white people need to hear from other white people.