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A review by go1ds
Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy by carla joy bergman
i got this arc from ak press
overall i really enjoyed this book. i think this serves as a good intro to issues of how children have been treated in society in different contexts. the highlight for me was the interviews and also the essays written by children/teens.
i did run into a couple of issues while reading this. while i liked the idea of a multimedia work, the poetry felt out of place and i didnt enjoy most of it. there were also multiple essays that felt repetitive and very similar to other essays which made getting through them pretty difficult? a couple of essays also feel too vague in referencing indigenous groups without actually giving examples of what indigenous groups were being referred to. i wish some of the more repetitive essays were cut in favor of letting some of the more vague academic essays have more room to develop.
overall i really enjoyed this book. i think this serves as a good intro to issues of how children have been treated in society in different contexts. the highlight for me was the interviews and also the essays written by children/teens.
i did run into a couple of issues while reading this. while i liked the idea of a multimedia work, the poetry felt out of place and i didnt enjoy most of it. there were also multiple essays that felt repetitive and very similar to other essays which made getting through them pretty difficult? a couple of essays also feel too vague in referencing indigenous groups without actually giving examples of what indigenous groups were being referred to. i wish some of the more repetitive essays were cut in favor of letting some of the more vague academic essays have more room to develop.