‘Once you bond … you want to create social change’: Interpersonal relationships in youth activism

Abstract This paper calls for greater attention to the interpersonal aspects of youth activism through a sociological and Black feminist exploration peer relationships within political engagement. Drawing on multi‐method qualitative research, work foregrounds perspectives experiences girls colour involved in an anti‐racist Scottish charity. I argue that community friendship ties cultivated participants' activism. Moreover, participants sought enact social change by undertaking activist educational practices with their peers. demonstrates how studying young people's can engender better understanding support it.