God in Pink takes us to some gruesome depths of violence against queer people, yet there are also brilliant moments of queer love, of queer expression, and of spiritual connection with the queerness of the Divine.
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For those seeking a climate change book that will actually connect you with approachable, imaginative, and meaningful ideas for action, this is it.
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What I want to say here is that for all of my White family and friends who don't think they would need to do something like this because they aren't racist, or because they "get it", you do need to do this. You (just like me) need to take antiracism and make it personal-- to question and challenge the version of yourself in your mind because I can guarantee there is someone else underneath. It doesn't make you a bad person or less deserving of love. But we have to reckon with the other self we hold inside or else we can't be fully invested in antiracism work-- or else we can't do much good.
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I could go on and on about all I learned from this book-- from the birth of capitalism and racism (conjoined twins, as Kendi calls them) to the simplicity of the racist-antiracist "peelable nametag" that we each wear and switch between every moment of every day without even realizing it. Kendi takes a notoriously complicated, hidden, and propagandistic historical web and turns it into something so clear.
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