Overnight, some became characters in the national battle over gun violence – known to millions as, depending on one’s slant, heroic crusaders against inaction, targets of rightwing trolls, or conspiracy theories’ “crisis actors”. It was an unfathomable amount for anyone, let alone a teenager, to handle – a burden explored in the documentary Us Kids which follows several March for Our Lives students turned activists over the course of 2018. “We were still kids, or just barely adults,” David Hogg, one of the most prominent activists, told the Guardian. “Most people don’t even know who they are at that point in life, or really don’t know who they are. For the Parkland students on tour, traveling across the country was a learning process in intersectional activism.

Source: The Guardian May 15, 2021 06:11 UTC