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	The Stars and the Blackness Between Them 4.25 avg rating — 6,631 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation by Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Libba Bray (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 1,907 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy by Kelly Jensen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Smith (Goodreads Author), Julie Murphy (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda Petrus (Goodreads Author), Kristen Uroda (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 306 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions by Wade Roush (Editor), Will Alexander (Contributor), Kayla Ancrum (Contributor) 4.05 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions by Eugene Myers, Da Eun Yoon (Narrator), Adi Cabral (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Take your feelings and hold them with softness, but also with power. And whenever you feel afraid, know you can ask your fear about itself.”
― Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

tags: feelings, softness

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“I look at my skin and it is glowing with constellations of ancestors. I ask them about escape and freedom and listen for revelation.”
― Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

tags: black-girl-magic, black-women-quotes, melanin

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“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you into your monster self, the beast that comes out when you are forced to survive in the absence of love and safety. Never mind that most of us come broken and traumatized, we still are no longer worth our own humanity. We are a criminal. We need punishment and to be rehabilitated. We need shame and exclusion. We are not worthy of control of our own lives; we are hopeless and evil. We are not individuals or of a womb or a family. We are not absent from anywhere else; because we are here, we simply non-exist. The world is better without us. In this society we are taught our crimes are the summations of our lives and define the limits of our possibility. Our only potential is to harm and destroy.”
― Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

tags: incarceration, prison, prison-industrial-complex

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Which book should the YA LGBT Books group read as our Book of the Month for Oct-Nov 2019?

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

by Junauda Petrus

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Satellite

by Nick Lake

11 votes 40.7%

The Battle for Jericho

by Gene Gant

2 votes 7.4%

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