States and cities banning books like 'All Boys Aren't Blue' are banning Black folks, queer folks, survivors, and folks who hold multiple of those identities from seeing themselves—both in literature and in life.
KB Brookins
KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. Their writing is featured in Poets.org, HuffPost, Poetry Magazine, Teen Vogue, Poetry Society of America, Oxford American, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. KB’s chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound won the Saguaro Poetry Prize and the Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Poetry Prize; it was also named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. KB’s debut full-length poetry collection Freedom House has been recommended by Vogue, Autostraddle, Ms. Magazine, and other publications.