Under All the Toughness: Stories, Sketches, and Fragments from the High School for Global Citizenship is a wide-ranging collection of protest poems, love letters, ruminations, lyrics, and short stories written by a group of young authors navigating the many challenges of their lives—falling in love, discovering one’s identity, cultivating joy, fighting oppressive systems, surviving COVID-19, and confronting police brutality against Black people. Inside, you’ll find uncompromising works written with infinite imagination by a group of young authors