Shoutout to @sheathescholar for encouraging me to move Like A Love Story to the top of reading list. I haven’t been able to put it down all day. It’s a gorgeous meditation on the complicated & messy intersections of the personal and political; an ode to love in all of its forms.

It’s a story that puts faces on broader political moments like the Iranian Revolution, ACT UP, and the Reagan administration’s gleeful neglect of dying queers. And a YA title that honors queer elders in their strength, beauty, and wisdom.

The book also details how queer people constructed and passed down their histories and knowledges because schools and other institutions refused to see their histories and knowledges as worthy of preserving and teaching.

In some ways, the book works as a modern day version of Uncle Stephen’s letters: schools still largely refuse to teach queer history so we have this young adult title that teaches us a vital history schools intentional ignore.

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