{"product_id":"unfollow-me-essays-on-complicity","title":"Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Busby, Jill Louise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate, impertinent, and incisive collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJill Louise Busby spent years in the nonprofit sector specializing in Diversity \u0026amp; Inclusion. She spoke at academic institutions, businesses, and detention centers on the topics of Race, Power, and Privilege and delivered over two-hundred workshops to nonprofit organizations all over the California Bay Area. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2016, fed up with what passed as progressive in the Pacific Northwest, Busby uploaded a one-minute video about race, white institutions, and faux liberalism to Instagram. The video received millions of views across social platforms. As her pithy persona Jillisblack became an \"it-voice\" weighing in on all things race-based, Jill began to notice parallels between her performance of \"diversity\" in the white corporate world and her performance of \"wokeness\" for her followers. Both, she realized, were scripted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnfollow Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir-in-essays about these scripts; it's about tokenism, micro-fame, and inhabiting spaces-real and virtual, black and white-where complicity is the price of entry. Busby's social commentary manages to be both wryly funny and achingly open-hearted as she recounts her shape-shifting moves among the subtle hierarchies of progressive communities. \u003ci\u003eUnfollow Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a sharply personal and self-questioning critique of white fragility (and other words for racism), respectability politics (and other words for shame), and all the places where fear masquerades as progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill Louise Busby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.65h x 5.80w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635577112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2021 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJill Louise Busby \u003c\/b\u003ehad worked for years in the nonprofit sector with a focus on diversity and inclusion when she uploaded a short but scathing attack on liberal progressivism and the corporate nonprofit machine. The video went viral and made her a sought-after speaker of indulgently honest opinions. She continues to use social media, writing, and film to expose contradictions, challenge performative authenticity, and campaign for accountability. She lives in Olympia, WA.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43656831959193,"sku":"9781635577112","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/3367\/0297\/files\/img_7481890a-8da0-4cc7-bf37-d97677779927.jpg?v=1724609160","url":"https:\/\/bookmarksretail.store\/products\/unfollow-me-essays-on-complicity","provider":"Bookmarks Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}