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A review by sometimesbryce
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
3.0
Rating: 3.5
When We Rise is a deeply relevant, if somewhat boring, look into the history of Cleve Jones' historic life of LGBT+ rights and protests. Jones covers his own journey into historic and widespread activism, including his friendship and apprenticeship under Harvey Milk. He details his long fight for equality, beginning on the streets of San Francisco and moving into D.C. Jones occasionally, as in many memoirs, doesn't quite understand what is and is not interesting to his readers. However, his work stands as deeply important and bitterly relevant.
At a time of Milo Yiannopoulos, and other, predominately white, gay males, forgetting their history of activism and struggle, and a time when a large portion of Americans regard marches and protests as lazy entitlement, it is both refreshing and humbling to see the benefits of the activist culture. I would strongly recommend this to anyone irritated at Womxn Marches or the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Change is a slow and bitter uphill battle, and protests are sometimes the only way to wake others up. When We Rise isn't a great book, but it is a necessary one.
When We Rise is a deeply relevant, if somewhat boring, look into the history of Cleve Jones' historic life of LGBT+ rights and protests. Jones covers his own journey into historic and widespread activism, including his friendship and apprenticeship under Harvey Milk. He details his long fight for equality, beginning on the streets of San Francisco and moving into D.C. Jones occasionally, as in many memoirs, doesn't quite understand what is and is not interesting to his readers. However, his work stands as deeply important and bitterly relevant.
At a time of Milo Yiannopoulos, and other, predominately white, gay males, forgetting their history of activism and struggle, and a time when a large portion of Americans regard marches and protests as lazy entitlement, it is both refreshing and humbling to see the benefits of the activist culture. I would strongly recommend this to anyone irritated at Womxn Marches or the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Change is a slow and bitter uphill battle, and protests are sometimes the only way to wake others up. When We Rise isn't a great book, but it is a necessary one.