A review by ropey
They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis

Rating this kind of book is difficult because I often base my rating on how much I enjoyed the work. Memoirs, on the other hand, carry a different sort of impact on me in the sense that although I don't necessarily enjoy some of them, I also acknowledge their importance. This book is one of them. It's a collection of real and raw accounts of a person who has witnessed, even with her privilege, the prejudice and racism in what was first thought to be a progressive society. Reading this opened a window to a world I often saw glimpses of in twitter threads or news articles about race, rape culture, trauma, and abuse, but never in a long format. It was akin to diving into experiences that were out of my depth, and upon finishing it, I wanted to scrub myself pink of all the anger it roused in me, only to stop short. I know I'll be carrying this story with me for the rest of my life.