‘Here We Are’ an uplifting anthology

Editor Kelly Jensen couldn’t have chosen a more fitting leadoff piece for “Here We Are,” a new anthology of contemporary writing about feminism for teenage readers, than novelist Malinda Lo’s “Forever Feminist.” Like many of the writers in this book, Lo traces who she is today back to who she was as a child, “an awkward, outspoken girl in glasses with a stereotypical Asian bob haircut, pretending to fit in though I’m desperate to leave my small town behind.”