This collection of poetry is very today, speaking specifically to the Black Lives Matter conversations of 2020 (and ongoing). Heavy handed but good. I liked three specific moments:
1) When McGowan describes the exhaustion of having to teach another white person, again, basic conversations about being Black in the US, and how it usually ends up being a field trip for the white person but a daily struggle for McGowan.
2) A reflection on the term BIPOC as yet another tool for othering.
3) "Tolerate is not a word that describes friendship"