Turn Up For Freedom: Notes for All the Tough Girls* Awakening... - 9781942173830

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Turn Up For Freedom: Notes for All the Tough Girls* Awakening to Their Collective PowerAuthor(s): E Morales-Williams\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Common Notions, United Kingdom\nImprint: Common Notions\nISBN-13: 9781942173830, 978-1942173830\nSynopsis\nA powerful guidebook for healing and resistance for young girls and gender-expansive youth of color on how to unite, heal, protect, and lead their communities. Turn Up For Freedom helps youth leaders hone their skills to build personal, emotional, and collective freedom. It centers youth leadership through principled positions, such as being a healer, a protector, a scholar-activist, a community organizer, and being radically joyful, in order to build personal emotional and collective freedom. Through memoir, story telling, and political education, E Morales-Williams grounds these principles in the material experiences of working-class youth and reflects on the possibilities and challenges in practicing them as a collective in under-.