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Each story is followed by discussion points and activities suited for adults and children and designed for family and group settings

our best chance of thriving in the digital era lies in taking care of our “smart” selves as diligently as we maintain our smart devices

and grounded in both research and history

and sometimes they’re us

Donald Thompson

An Optimism cid_6644 Each story is followed byAgainst our terribly ambivalent presentin which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attackAn Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to surviveand even thrive. Anchored by an epistolary sequence directed to the 20th century poet and activist Pauli Murray, and looking to the work of other trans, queer, and black feminist writers like Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and