They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus.

A
booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to
Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few
Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences
she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next
four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought
out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by
white students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person
of colour in class and was tokenized by her romantic partners. She
heard racial slurs in bars, on the street, and during lectures. And she
gathered labels she never asked for: Abuse survivor. Token. Bad
feminist. But, by graduation, she found an unshakeable sense of
self--and a support network of other women of colour.

Using
her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own
experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir
of pain, but also resilience.