Sarah’s Reviews > Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals > Status Update

"Know that I love you in a world that would turn your blood into candy. Criminalize your flexibility. Oversimplify your claim to your own life. Know that for me your blood is a scripture. I want it to stay in your veins. I am saying your name. We're not breathing in vain."

Those last few chapters were extremely good.

"Am I the only one here in a lesson, a coughing sputtering thrash, a struggle to stay who I thought I was, ignorant to what evolution has already written inside me? I feel out of my depth, but really, how would I know? [...] Thank you to those who hold me accountable, who expect me to be who I need to become. Thank you for ignoring the lies I tell myself about myself." (p. 23)