This was such a gripping, realistic look at grief. I have a lot of feelings about it, but I'm having a hard time finding the words. It was such a raw look into grieving that didn't shy away from the mess of it all. 

yes, I'm still crying about it.

This is mandatory reading. The situation we are facing with the climate is urgent and this outlines why Indigenous people have to be at the center of climate justice. This also discusses issues that are interconnected with climate justice, such as food insecurity, health, oppression among many axis, and more. It discusses the shortcomings of current attempts (or ideas) for how to address climate justice and why we need to move beyond them.  

 This was definitely an introduction to the idea, but I was expecting a bit more depth and more concrete ways to go about producing a more global queer solidarity. It could be a good introduction for those very new to queer community and intra-community solidarity (which, quite frankly, most people talking about queer community online seem to need), but ultimately it was quite surface level and didn't really dig into the more global solidarity that was discussed in the intro 

Glennon tells her story about falling in love with a woman near the end of her marriage. With that, she is navigating unlearning so much that the world has taught her how to be -- untangling herself from that expectation. It's an incredibly important experience and perspective to put out there, especially for other people who come out later in life. I do think that parts of it could have been a bit smoother and gone a little deeper. I like that she talked about activism outside of queer spaces (being an ally to the Black community and talking about when she messed up within that), but a piece of some of that felt a little off -- maybe inflated, especially when she spoke about specific things that specific people close to her did. She was bragging on them and less on herself, but it still felt awkward to me (I'm interested to see what Black and other readers of color thought about that piece of it). I wish she would have brought in some bits of theory or writing from other people who talked about a lot of the ideas that she was getting at when it came to allyship or helping other communities because only having her perspective felt very surface-level (so much that it was distracting, at least for me). I did really like that she reflected on certain issues that she really had to fight with, including control and boundaries -- and that it was something that she even had to work through in her current relationship, which is very important to recognize.

 This is an important look into modern conversion therapy and the evangelical movement from an inside perspective. Rodgers details her experience as a kid, desperate for validation, a young adult with too much faith in the system, to where they are now openly gay, in love, and navigating Christianity outside of fundamentalism. She writes with compassion and grace humanizing all involved while being honest about the pain she (and others) were in. 

I'm in the midst of piecing together my thoughts an my emotions so that they might become an Instagram post, but it is quite difficult. Within these essays, John Green discusses specific aspects of the world and give them historical and personal context. The thought and nuance, the way he connects so many things together and brings their importance to light is incredible. This book made me desperately want to fall in love with the world.