Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It

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Synopsis
A debut book from Entertainment Weekly writer and former Out magazine editor Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Rage is a darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness, and the American Dream, at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality.One romantic hopeful had greeted Lester Fabian Brathwaite on a dating app with this gem: &“You into race play?&” Being young, queer, gifted, and Black, Lester has found that his best tool for navigating American life is gallows humor. If you don&’t laugh, you cry—or, you summon your inner rage. With biting wit, Lester&’s 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 &“masc for masc&” on dating profiles. Lester also dives deep into representations of queer life from RuPaul&’s 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, Whitney Houston, and Nina Simone.Lester&’s razor-sharp voice, coupled with his searing social commentary on topics such as dating, rejection, racism, sexuality, identity, and more, offer an increasingly divided world an engaging and original read.
Copyright:
2024

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
288 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593185094
Related ISBNs:
9780593185087
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Lester Fabian Brathwaite
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
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