This was a really moving, tense read. A great contemporary YA about and for teen activists. I recently read Let's Talk About Love and had the complaint that the characters kind of felt like walking Tumblr primers for their identities, and this book is much more advanced level. It's packed with intersectionality--trans characters of color, LGBTQA characters of color, nonbinary characters of color, disabled characters of color, etc etc etc, but very much in a way that assumes the reader is already familiar with all of these concepts and ready to roll their eyes at clueless microaggressions (um, and macroaggressions) against their identities. So: for some readers this might be a bit confusing, but for a lot of readers I think it will come as a relief that these characters can just be who they are without a ton of explanation given. It's also a real callout @ clueless white allies and it's probably the type of book that's going to make a certain subset of white people real mad, but I think it's a valuable perspective to read and sit with.

It's a sad, infuriating, moving read but with characters to root for and just enough shreds of hope to keep it from being completely bleak.