My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Sarah Wylie is a Canadian writer of young adult novels. Her first novel, All These Lives, was published in 2012. Her next novel, another stand-alone contemporary young adult novel, will be published in 2014.