“You sometimes don’t know you exist until you realize someone like you existed before.”

Johnson’s book is a groundbreaking memoir-manifesto of casual and intimate storytelling that helps LGBTQ+ and Black youth find their place across the spectrum of gender, race, and sexuality. They split every chapter between vulnerable, joyful, and empowering anecdotes, and deeper life lessons for the readers to identify with and advocate for themselves and others. It's a quick yet deeply affecting read that I won't forget about for a long time.

The only reason I gave this four out of five stars instead of 5 out of 5 is more out of personal preference of reading more in-depth illustrative memoirs as well as recognizing the demographic for this is more towards the YA/younger crowd than me.