God Is a Man of War by Stephen De Young
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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781955890045 |
| ISBN 10 | 1955890048 |
| Title | God Is a Man of War |
| Author | Stephen De Young |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ancient Faith Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-10-19 |
| Number of pages | 162 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |