Pub Date: June 21, 2022
Dewey: B
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 14 to 18
Physical Info: 0.94" H x 8.58" L x 5.43" W ( 0.90 lbs) 232 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography and Autobiography | LGBTQ | Social Activists | Places | Caribbean and Latin America
Description:
Angeline Jackson stands up to the culture of homophobia in Jamaica by sharing the story of her sexual and spiritual awakening as well as her traumatic experience of "corrective rape."
Brief description:
Angeline Jackson is an LGBTQ human rights activist, an HIV/AIDS educator, and the former executive director of Quality of Citizenship Jamaica. In 2015, President Barack Obama recognized Angeline as one of Jamaica's remarkable young leaders at the Town Hall for Youth in Kingston, Jamaica. Angeline participated in a U.S. Senate briefing panel on LGBT rights in 2014 and attended the first White House Forum on Global LGBT Human Rights. She lives in Jamaica.
Review Quotes: Human rights and LGBTQ activist Jackson holds nothing back in this raw, inspiring memoir.-- "Booklist"