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  • Published: 29 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781847926746
  • Imprint: Bodley Head
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $40.00
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A Renaissance of Our Own

A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining

  • Rachel Cargle



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.

  • Published: 29 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781847926746
  • Imprint: Bodley Head
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $40.00
Categories:

Praise for A Renaissance of Our Own

Rachel Cargle is that rare sort of phoenix who rises from the ashes of her life not only reborn on the personal level, but also fully ready to change the world ... an elegant, thoughtful, vulnerable, and inspiring memoir

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic

Dazzling -a loving, bold tale of imagination, bravery, and radical action in the face of injustice

Elle

Profoundly moving and powerful ... you will leave these pages changed for the better

Gabrielle Union, author of We're Going to Need More Wine

Cargle recounts how she spun silk out of the thread bare yarns of patriarchy and white supremacy while reminding readers that such alchemy is possible ... if we give ourselves permission to re-imagine our existences

Sonya Renee Taylor, author of The Body is Not an Apology

Beautiful ... This book is not meant to be simply consumed but explored

Joy Harden Bradford, founder of Therapy for Black Girls and author of Sisterhood Heals

A collection of lessons and questions that prompt the reader's own life redesign

Time Magazine