A deeply personal, thoroughly researched and unflinching examination of feminism through the lens of race calling for a new understanding of our relationships with ourselves and one another--from a leading public academic, writer, lecturer, and activist. After a photograph of her standing with her white friend at the 2017 Women's March went viral, then twenty-seven-year old Rachel Cargle began to wonder, What is her place in the feminist movement? Is feminist solidarity even a possibility? She started documenting her investigation into these questions and many others via Instagram, which grew into a robust community of nearly two million members. Now, in I Don't Want Your Love and Light, Cargle shares her journey, depicting the framework for true allyship that she discovered along the way. According to Cargle, true freedom from the structures that reinforce white supremacy comes through a three-art process- knowledge + empathy + action. I Don't Want Your Love and Light describes Cargle's journey towards her own liberation from the constructs that confine and limit not just Black women, but all people. Both a memoir and a manifesto, this book offers a way for all readers to reimagine the world and their place in it. Cargle presents a map toward a freer, more equal world--one that is not based on hierarchy or othering, but on seeing one another for who we really are.
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ISBN
9781847926746
Publisert
2023-05-25
Utgiver
Vendor
The Bodley Head Ltd
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
00, U, P, G, 05, 06, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

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Biographical note

Rachel Cargle is an Akron, Ohio-born public academic, writer, and lecturer working at the intersection of race and womanhood. She is the creator of "The Great Unlearn," an online learning space that provides resources and critical discourse with a monthly curriculum taught by Black academics and thinkers whose work points toward a more equitable future. She is also the founder of Elizabeth's of Akron, a bookstore and writing center that promotes, amplifies and celebrates marginalized voices, and she founded The Loveland Foundation, Inc. which offers free mental health care through the Therapy Fund for Black women and girls. Social- IG- @rachel.cargle; TW- @rachelcargle; FB- @rachelecargle