In this searing honest memoir a Black queer emergencyroom nurse works the front lines of care during COVID19.Britney Daniels is a Black masculinepresenting tattooed lesbian from a workingclass background. For the last five years she has been working as an emergencyroom nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal diary a tool to heal from the daytoday traumas of seeing too much and caring too much.Hilarious gutwrenching and infuriating by turns these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic nononsense young nurse who highlights the way race inequality and a profitdriven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived.ampamp160Whether it is giving ones own clothes to a homeless patient sticking up for patients of color in the face of indifference from white doctors and nurses or nursing oneampamp8217s own back pain accrued from transporting too many bodies as the morgues overflowed during the pandemic Journal of a Black Queer Nurse reveals the ways in which care is much more than treating a physical body and how the commitment to real carecare that involves listening to and understanding patients in a deeper senseampamp8212demands nurses especially nurses of color must also be warriors.