![]() ![]() He's explicit in his accounts of using sex to humiliate himself and his partners, especially the straight white men he seduces. By the time he gets a full scholarship to Western Kentucky University for his debate skills, Jones is a roiling vessel of shame, need and anger. Throughout How We Fight for Our Lives, readers feel the tension of Jones' adolescent and college years, as he's trying to figure out how to be. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover Watch your inbox for the Adult Librarian Newsletter Tell us what you’d like to receive below. And one day, if you're lucky, your life and death will become some artist's new 'project.'" How We Fight for Our Lives A Memoir By Saeed Jones Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 17.00 Join our mailing list Get our latest staff recommendations, award news and digital catalog links right to your inbox. Jones recalls his younger self realizing that, " Being a black gay boy is a death wish. Granted, Jones' public high school is open-minded enough to host a touring production of The Laramie Project, the play about the hate-crime murder of Matthew Shepard but what Jones takes away from that performance is that he'd better closet himself even more securely at school. Jones' memoir effectively deep-sixes any illusions I had that it must've been a little easier in recent decades to come of age as a queer black boy in Texas. It's sometimes hard to read and harder to put down. ![]() How We Fight for Our Lives is at once explicitly raunchy, mean, nuanced, loving and melancholy. It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders Saeed Jones On His Memoir, 'How We Fight For Our Lives' - And How He Fought For His ![]()
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