Foreword: Sen. Amy Klobuchar --
Somewhere over the rainbow / Sally Kohn --
For brown girls who blossom on their own time / Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez --
Own world / Alia Shaukat --
Your golden thread / Matthew Burgess --
Everyone plays / Amy Chu, with illustrations by Louie Chin --
From high-jumping to life support to wheelchair basketball in Afghanistan / Jess Markt --
Nevertheless, love persists / Danielle Vabner --
(Young) Man in the mirror / Nate Smith --
A woman's place is in the kitchen / Maneet Chauhan --
Be bigger than your story / A conversation with Tay Anderson and Leland Melvin --
Twisted-mouth / Jeff Gomez --
The unfinished Maulik Pancholy pilot / Maulik Pancholy --
You, sailor / Erin McKeown --
Triple threat / A conversation with Tamika, Tauja, and Kenyon Catchings --
Making it better / James Lecesne --
They didn't succeed-I survived / Fanny Starr --
Learning about empathy / Imran Siddiquee --
The roots of embodied education / Liz Wolfson --
Not a doll / Jadaida Glover --
The quietly relentless / Soraya Chemaly --
More than my womb / Melissa Marr --
Just the beginning / Jesselyn Silva --
#Nofilter / Azure Antoinette --
I didn't fit in-what a gift / Vicki Saunders --
Window seat / Rep. Leslie Herod --
Reflections of a younger Silvercloud / Johnny Silvercloud --
Sometimes you are better off not knowing / Binta Niambi Brown --
How writing a college essay taught me more about myself than life / Patricia Valoy --
Nevertheless, I write / Amy Fox --
The new kid / Jose Antonio Tijerino --
Brown boy, white suburbia / Pej Vahdat --
The practice of self-love / Wade Davis --
Black ancestry and artistry wielded against the police state / Patrice Khan-Cullors --
I am not Susanne-I am Soulaima / Soulaima Gourani --
We rise / Xiuhtezcatl Martinez --
Rewriting the rules / Dr. Gail Schoettler --
Beyond the baseline / A conversation with Jason and Jarron Collins --
My growth through drought / Kiara Nirghin --
L'amour, maybe not / Shruti Ganguly --
Writing my own story / Jillian Mercado --
The accidental activist / Gavin Grimm.
