All Boys Arent Blue, George M. Johnson
All Boys Arent Blue, George M. Johnson
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All Boys Aren't Blue
A Memoir-Manifesto

Author: George M. Johnson

Narrator: George M. Johnson

Unabridged: 5 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/28/2020


Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.

A New York Times Bestseller!
Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories

From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.

Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults. (Johnson used he/him pronouns at the time of publication.)

Velshi Banned Book Club
Indie Bestseller
Teen Vogue Recommended Read
Buzzfeed Recommended Read
People Magazine Best Book of the Summer
A New York Library Best Book of 2020
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 ... and more!

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About George M. Johnson

George M. Johnson (they/them) is an Emmy nominated, award-winning, and bestselling Black nonbinary author and activist. They have written on race, gender, sex, and culture for Essence, the Advocate, BuzzFeed News, Teen Vogue, and more than forty other national publications. George has appeared on BuzzFeed’s AM2DM as well as on MSNBC. They are also a proud HBCU alum twice over and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated. Their debut memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue, was a New York Times bestseller and garnered many accolades. It was the second-most banned book of 2022 in the United States, according to the American Library Association. For their work fighting book bans and challenges, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) honored George with its Free Speech Defender Award, and TIME Magazine named them one of the “100 Next Most Influential People in the World.” While writing their memoir, George used he/him pronouns. Originally from Plainfield, New Jersey, they now live in Los Angeles, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on June 13, 2020

Update: Changing my GR rating to 4 stars because I'm trying to keep my goodreads more consistent to my personal impressions rather than what I think the book should be "objectively"! 4 stars for me personally, but I believe it deserves 5 stars for young adults that this is geared towards. This is a l......more

Goodreads review by Kai on October 27, 2020

so who the fuck let it slip that I cannot resist books with beautiful people wearing beautiful flower crowns on their covers What baffles me most about this book is the realisation that heteronormativity and homophobia sit so deeply within society that even when you have a loving and queer-friendly f......more

Goodreads review by Rick on September 27, 2022

I read this a while back, but I suppose I needed some time to process what I'd experienced. Johnson writes with clarity and power about their experience growing as a Queer Black child in New Jersey, not knowing where they fit in and wishing, as they say themselves, that they had a book like this one......more

Goodreads review by Riley on June 11, 2020

this is a very powerful memoir about being black and queer, and the intersection of those identities. the author narrates the audiobook and you can tell he is a natural born story-teller. i highly highly recommend this......more

Goodreads review by emma on July 17, 2020

Truly I don’t know how to review this book, so I’m just going to list a few things about it here. - Rarely have I encountered a memoir as honest as this one. - Eventually I felt like it was a little dumbed down??? - And it’s called a “YA memoir”...I don’t know what that means but it seems unnecessary -......more


Awards

  • NYPL Best Books of the Year
  • Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year