At first, I was worried. I felt like this may be another trauma porn situation in which we as the reader are made to bear the trauma and weight of others without any alleviation or any actual acknowledgement. Of course, I saw the hurt and the issues that the author obviously dealt with. Loss is never easy and we all have to grieve in our own ways, and hopefully, heal. Considering the length of this book, I was worried we would never get to that "healing" stage when so much of what I'd read was just the brokenness.

However, when we got to "Depression be like," those worries faded.

As we go from poem to poem, we get that the poet has lived with a lot of baggage and this is her way of releasing them into the open. Were all the poems for me? No, and some felt as though they were just a slight rewording of a poem we had already seen. Yet, the emotion is there. You can tell that this is something she truly had to work through, from death to health issues to body image woes to depression and suicidal thoughts. We get all that plainly, but not in a boring way.

"#ThemToo" invites the reader in through the use of second person and it is no longer simply about the poet herself, it is about her audience and those who have a similar story to tell.

While this is not the book I would typically pick up, it is one that sparks questions and makes you think. Hopefully, for readers who aren't familiar with the woes she gives, they will open their eyes. I love the way that the poet sectioned out her chapbook and the forms she chose to use and when. As many readers know, the shape of a poem can matter just as much as the words within it.

I appreciate the poet being vulnerable with us. As a Black woman reader, I felt seen by the poets work, while we are all our own person, we have shared lived experiences that the poet touches on in a pointed manner that is full of emotion and leaves you with the sense of "enough is enough."