Concrete Kids

Häftad, Engelska, 202012-15 år

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Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today’s leading activists and artists.Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra Leon takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon - and to recognise the privilege it is to dream at all.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-10-13
Mått107 x 157 x 13 mm
Vikt136 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Läsålder12-15 år
SeriePocket Change Collective
Antal sidor96
FörlagPenguin Putnam Inc
IllustratörLukashevsky, Ashley
ISBN9780593095195

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Amyra León is an author, musician, playwright, and activist. Her work transcends genre and medium, and focuses on Black liberation, politics, and communal healing. She believes that the art of listening and honest conversation are the primary tools for lasting change. Her aim is to empower communities to believe in the significance of their individual stories. The conversation has just begun.Ashley Lukashevsky is an illustrator and visual artist born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, currently based in Los Angeles. Ashley uses illustration and art as tools to strengthen social movements against systemic racism, sexism, and anti-immigrant policy. She aims to tear down these systems of oppression through first envisioning and drawing a world without them. Her clients include Refinery29, Broadly, The Washington Post, Planned Parenthood, Girls Who Code, GOOD magazine, Brooklyn magazine, ACLU, Red Bull, Snapchat, Air Jordan, and Logo TV. Ashley is also the illustrator of the best-selling Antiracist Baby, by Ibram X. Kendi.