Overview
One romantic hopeful had greeted Lester Fabian Brathwaite on a dating app with this gem: āYou into race play?ā Being young, queer, gifted, and Black, Lester has found that his best tool for navigating American life is gallows humor. If you donāt laugh, you cryāor, you summon your inner rage. With biting wit, Lesterās book Rage interrogates all the ways that systemic racism and homophobia have shaped our society. All to pose that proverbial question: Can a gurl live?
Rage is one part memoir, one part cultural critique, one part live grenade. He contrasts his tragic-comedic love life with the ideals he had formed from bingeing (straight, white) Hollywood depictions. And he is quick to side-eye the misogyny and internalized homophobia that some people reveal in statements like āmasc for mascā on dating profiles. Lester also dives deep into representations of queer life from RuPaulās Drag Race to The Birdcage (Robin Williams was a snack in Versace), and explores our cultural understanding of Black genius through stories of James Baldwin, WhitneyĀ Houston, and Nina Simone.
Lesterās razor-sharp voice, coupled with hisĀ searing social commentary on topics such as dating, rejection, racism, sexuality, identity, and more,Ā offer an increasingly divided world an engaging and original read.
This book title, Rage (On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It), ISBN: 9780593632734, by Lester Fabian Brathwaite, published by Diversified Publishing (September 10, 2024) is available in paperback (large print). Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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