I recommend this monograph as reading for race/ethnicity and gender/sexuality focused courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This book thoughtfully amplifies Black and Latin voices from queer and trans experience. Its approachable, engaging, accessible craft uplifts the values that inspire Brooks in research. I consider it essential reading for feminist scholars, especially those based in the United States.

Gender and Society

Overall, the book is written in an accessible manner, and the author makes important connections between their analysis and past and current events that have shaped this nation and LGBT people’s lives. You can think of this book as a primer into the many subjects explored, and as such, it is great to use in classrooms, both undergraduate and graduate, and is recommended reading for anyone who does not have much knowledge of the way multiply marginalized communities are affected by violence.

Contemporary Sociology

Everyday Violence is just as powerful as it is timely! Brooks’ work provides a refreshing perspective by giving voice to Black and Latinx LGBTQ survivors and activists working to promote equality and justice, while also highlighting the role that structural racism, homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination play in not only allowing, but also encouraging this violence to perpetuate. Throughout, Brooks emphasizes many uncomfortable truths – such as the reappropriation of the BLM, and discrimination that Black and Latinx LGBTQ people face both within communities of color and LGBTQ communities – and provides innovative and policy driven solutions to reduce this violence. Importantly, this book is not only about the violence Black and Latinx LGBTQ people experience, but also about community, resiliency, the fight for equality, and in many cases, the fight for basic survival.

Angelique Harris, Boston University School of Medicine

Siobhan Brooks' Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities is a stunning and necessary reminder about the ways some of us survive, or not, through violence. Brooks' words are catalytic—calling the reader to act justly and demanding of all of us to engage in the work of remaking communities where Black and Latinx lives are deeply valued and realized.

Darnell L. Moore, Author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

In Everyday Violence, Dr. Siobhan Brooks provides a razor-sharp intersectional lens to examine systemic, familial, and communal violence routinely committed against Black and Latinx LGBT people. Through interviews she conducted, rigorous scholarship, and her Black lesbian feminist activism, Dr. Brooks identifies the origins and contemporary realities of some of the most heinous acts against Black and Latinx LGBT people. She also sheds radiant light on why we must end the multilayered violence without enacting more violence. There aren't overnight, one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, Dr. Brooks offers restorative approaches that center Black and Latinx LGBT people and require institutional and cultural change. Everyday Violence is brilliant and accessible scholarship that encourages us to envision and work diligently to co-create a world where we're all safe and free from harm by ensuring some of the most marginalized are safe and free from harm.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Lambda Award-Winning Editor of Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse