We Can Do Better Than This, Amelia Abraham
We Can Do Better Than This, Amelia Abraham
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We Can Do Better Than This
An urgent manifesto for how we can shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people

Author: Amelia Abraham

Narrator: Amelia Abraham, Owen Jones, Peppermint, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Yasmin Benoit, Wolfgang Tillmans, Naoise Dolan, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Travis Alabanza

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2021

Synopsis

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How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? 35 extraordinary voices share their stories and visions for the future.

We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people everywhere the opportunity to thrive?

In We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices explore this question. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new arguments on safety and visibility, dating and gender, care and community, they map new global frontiers in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

Pabllo Vittar pleads for the end of hate murders, Olly Alexander champions inclusive sex education in schools, and Beth Ditto calls for a revolution in representation. Elsewhere, Mykki Blanco sets out a vision to end HIV stigma, Owen Jones demands improved LGBTQ+ mental health services, and Travis Alabanza imagines a world without gender policing.

Moving from the UK and USA to Russia, Bangladesh and beyond, this is a guide to understanding the crucial issues facing LGBTQ+ people today. But it's also a passionate call to action and an important manifesto for how - together - we can start to create a better future.

Edited by journalist and author Amelia Abraham, with writing from:

Peppermint - Wolfgang Tillmans - Olly Alexander - Jonathan Anderson - Pabllo Vittar - Naoise Dolan - Amrou Al-Kadhi - Shura - Beth Ditto - Owen Jones - Riyadh Khalaf - Tom Rasmussen - Mykki Blanco - Phyll Opoku-Gyimah - Travis Alabanza - Yasmin Benoit - Mazharul Islam - Kate Bornstein - Adam Eli - Shon Faye - Fox Fisher - Hanne Gaby Odiele - Sasha Kazantseva - Andrew Gurza - Holland - Levi Hord - Juliet Jacques - Leticia Opio - madison moore - Matthew Riemer (@LGBT_History) - Vincent Desmond - Juno Roche - Bobbi Salvör Menuez - Carl Siciliano

© ed. Amelia Abraham 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gerhard on June 07, 2021

Every new generation that grows up can’t necessarily understand how it was before – how the current normal was achieved. It is normal for each person to assume that where they’re at has always been that way. We just want to be able to love the way we love and be left alone, be left in peace. At the......more

Goodreads review by Emily Sarah on July 07, 2022

A really informative and eye opening read for both LGBTQ+ people and ally’s. This was a great read, it covered a bit of everything from racism, transphobia, homophobia to how communities are effected by things like politics, laws and the monarchy. It covers body issues and infighting within the lgbt+......more

Goodreads review by Tarian on August 16, 2023

Ich empfinde diese Sammlung an kurzen Texten eher als Bestandaufnahme oder Materialsammlung der gegenwärtigen LGBTQ+-Community. Eher störend war dabei der anscheinend von Herausgeberin Amelia Abraham gewählte Ansatz, alle Beitragenden zu bitten, einen Wunsch für die queere Community zu formulieren.......more

Goodreads review by Shannen on June 07, 2022

"When marginialised people connect with, learn from, and build upon the efforts and struggles of those who came before, we inch ever closer to a new and better world." We Can Do Better Than This is an anthology of 35 essays from queer activists on various topics that are currently impacting the L......more

Goodreads review by Siobhan on May 17, 2021

We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights is a collection of short essays by various contributors that set out the present and future of areas such as healthcare, community, and visibility for LGBTQ+ people. Covering topics across the UK and USA but also Uganda, Russia, Ba......more

Quotes

With We Can Do Better Than This, Amelia Abraham has switched on every light in the queer village, illuminating the still-not-visible and giving space to many, important, intersectional voices on pregnancy and gender, for instance; refuge; ageing and queer community, or the dream of a trans-majority future. Let this be an invitation for us to read further on every pertinent subject and brilliant mind in it

A queer selection box that's at once thought-provoking and powerful, and at times very funny. This is a snapshot of where we are now, and where we need to get to

A vibey roundtable, an atlas charting global disparities but also interconnectedness, an expedition over the rainbow, a friendly and fierce survey of this critical juncture. Join up

We Can Do Better Than This is a diverse and powerful collection of writing from 35 inspiring figures, as they reflect on their own experiences of being queer. It poses a simple but essential question: how can we create a better world for our LGBTQ+ family? . . . Urgent and vital Book of the Month, Attitude

Captivating . . . We Can Do Better Than This imagines the next step for our community . . . Digs deep to present a candid commentary on the LGBTQ+ community's ongoing issues and delivers hopeful, thoughtful solutions. Simply put, it's a must-read Gay Times, 10 LGBTQ+ Books You Have to Read this Pride Month

Thoughtful and thought-provoking, this book embodies the rainbow-coloured diversity of the queer community and neatly articulates the struggles ahead. It is an education in why the concept of 'pride' remains not only relevant but critical

Read and be inspired! Global voices with ideas to shape a brighter LGBTQ+ future - a planet without criminalisation, discrimination and hate crime. This book is a reminder that it starts with us and now

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