Risa Applegarth’s Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency is a three-part analysis of adolescent activism over the last thirty years. The analysis centers on their activist rhetorical agency so as to reframe youth efforts as not just emblematic of the movements they represent, but as symbols of embodied power in their own right. Each of the three parts is developed around a specific case study set in the United States. Reflexive interviews complement the research and enable participant consideration of subsidiary concepts such as temporality, memory, and materialism.