They Shot Anyway: Toho Publishing Chapbook Series II

They Shot Anyway bubbles over with generational black grief and anger. Taylor guides us through the perspective of a black Muslim woman in a landscape that is hostile to all three. Still, this othered woman rebelliously clutches onto her humanity in a country that regards her life as disposable.

As unarmed black corpses dominate the news cycle, these pages sear with fury and whimpers of grief while she reckons with survivors’ guilt. Now that we live in the wreckage, They Shot Anyway answers the age-old question of What do we do? We keep going anyway.