| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Author’s note - Prologue: Misafropedia - Canto i: black - Chapter one: carceral dissonance - Chapter two: a prayer for my father - Chapter three: nowalaters - Chapter four: a prayer for rest - Chapter five: d*mb smart - Canto ii: queer - Chapter six: a prayer for limitlessness - Chapter seven: guilt and gods - Chapter eight: a prayer for another world - Chapter nine: representation matters? - Chapter ten: a prayer for choice - Chapter eleven: my gender is black - Chapter twelve: a prayer for new language - Chapter thirteen: logging out of passport twitter - Canto iii: free - Chapter fourteen: a prayer for healing - Chapter fifteen: trigger warning - Chapter sixteen: a prayer for freedom - Chapter seventeen: if we must die - Chapter eighteen: a prayer for courage - Chapter nineteen: abolition - Epilogue: a prayer for my grandmother. |
| Summary |
"One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Krsna mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them. Heartwarming and heart-wrenching, radical and reflective, Hari Ziyad’s vital memoir is for the outcast, the unheard, the unborn, and the dead. It offers us a new way to think about survival and the necessary disruption of social norms. It looks back in tenderness as well as justified rage, forces us to address where we are now, and, born out of hope, illuminates the possibilities for the future." -- Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Ziyad, Hari.
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| Subject(S) |
African American gay men -- Biography.
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Gay people -- Identity.
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African American sexual minorities -- Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781542091329 |
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1542091322 |
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