My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel YA Fiction for politically engaged people outside

for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo

Inspired by true events

Available in multiple denominations

to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy

In Queering Post-Black Art

My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel YA Fiction for politically engaged people outsideBorn into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl Trey Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash