Nevertheless, we persisted: 48 voices of defiance, strength, and courage

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

As is / Alysia Reiner

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

Guts / J.W. Cortes

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.