I'm in. Global queers unified, support wherever it's needed, encouragement for all. Yes!

Super fast listen/read. Adam is hitting all the great points on how to be a better queer representative, friend, ally, activist, neighbor, etc.. His premise is simple in the fact that all queer history is ours. All queer tragedy should unite us to band together to protect and support our community. Be the person you wished was there for your queer-awakening.

Slightly more interesting than a pamphlet you'd pick up at the doctor's office.

This little printed TED talk is super easy to sum up for such a complex and difficult topic. The author says "Queer people anywhere must fight for queer people everywhere" and then adds that you don't have to be out or even queer to fight for the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. He also expressed how vital it is to recognize how broad the spectrum of LGBT is and how many people live in it's margins. I liked his ten commandments of the global queer experience and how his main point is that queer people...

It’s fucked up they picked someone to write this pamphlet that doesn’t car about poc’s

”Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere.”

A short and insightful read. Adam Eli shares his personal understanding of queerness with relatable anecdotes (straight crushes 😅) and intersections with his Jewish heritage. The first section of The New Queer Conscience is uplifting, centering the notion that "queer people are never alone because we are a part of something greater than ourselves." I, too, wish I had learned about Sophie Wilson, Alan Turing, Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, and George Washington Carver, and more broadly

This book could be condensed to: Don't be a condescending jerk to anyone!

This compact manifesto of sorts aims to affirm the experiences of queer people, while fostering a sense of true community and mutual support. It presents solid ideas in a simple yet uplifting way, and is pleasingly mindful of intersectionality and privilege. Helped along by Adam Eli's warm and inclusive approach, it serves as a great jumping off point, but being so compact, few points are explored in any real depth, without the space to discuss many actual solutions to the problems highlighted.

The points were decent and the first twenty pages were fantastic, but the writing felt so condescending, over optimistic, brief, and patronizing, that it wasn't a book I thought was too great-despite having an amazing cover.

Required reading for anyone who wants to know how to be a good queer citizen of the world. Thank you for writing this, Adam.

A short book with a simple premise: Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere.

I feel like a bad queer and a bad Jew for rating this low, but...there's honestly not that much to go on. Obviously, this is not meant to be an in-depth study, being that it's a tiny little book and intended as more of a manifesto. But even taking that into consideration, it's really lacking in substance and in anything "new" as the title promises. I agree with all of his sentiments, but "Treat people nicely" and "Don't force people to come out" and "Check your privilege" are pretty 101. While I...

A quick, compelling read. I found there was a bit of a lack of really concrete ways to enact these changes and maybe a bit of disconnect from the fact that energy in the queer community isn't infinite so sometimes you will have to pick and choose which of these points to follow.Also, what do we do with missing stairs in the queer community? How do you keep your community safe while uplifting it? There's a lot of good thoughts in here but it's all a little surface and just the beginning of a conv...

The good intentions are clear, and there's an abundance of uplifting quotes to be drawn. For what it's worth, though, I actually might've DNF'd if this wasn't so short.As a whole it's just so underdeveloped — idealistic rather than actionable, based on theories and personal anecdotes rather than precedent or research, with complex issues oversimplified and/or glossed over. For example, challenging your privilege isn't a one-step process that you can check off before leveraging said privilege to

Okay I really like this but like why are allies getting an A in the initialism in this?? The fuck? Thankfully, Eli gives the first A to asexual and aromantic identities (completely forgot agender), but that's more recognition that Aces and Aros get in other spaces. "Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere." I really liked this story and how Eli discussed being queer and being Jewish. I liked that he also examined his own privilege as a cis man. There's some discussio...

Activist Adam Eli’s manifesto for becoming engaged and active in the struggle for liberation, can be read in a single sitting. Writing that the rules of society were largely written for heterosexual people and for heterosexual people, and grounding his book in his Jewish faith tradition, Eli argues that “queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere” and must support one another as we strive to live authentically and freely.Eli is a young gay and Jewish activist in New York City, and one...

I couldn't bring myself to give less than three stars to this, because of the good intentions and because queer people have to support each other (see, I paid attention). But honestly, I was a bit disappointed. It read like a manuscript that someone pitched to a publisher. I liked the writing style but the author could have done more research so that he could elaborate on the chapters/topics.

This book gets five stars because it fed my soul in a small way. The New Queer Conscience is a quick and focused read that I think is a must read for queer people who desire a connection to their queer culture. Eli delivers his message really effectively through personal anecdotes and bits of queer and jewish history.In a lot of ways the thesis is simplistic but offers a lot in terms of conceptualizing our experiences and relationships to other queer people.I really loved the comparisons Eli mak...

This was definitely an introduction to the idea, but I was expecting a bit more depth and more concrete ways to go about producing a more global queer solidarity. It could be a good introduction for those very new to queer community and intra-community solidarity (which, quite frankly, most people talking about queer community online seem to need), but ultimately it was quite surface level and didn't really dig into the more global solidarity that was discussed in the intro.