*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Why Rebel? A Politics of Kindness

A passionate, poetic manifesto for urgent rebellion is also a paean to the deep and extraordinary beauty of the natural world from Jay Griffiths the author of Wild.

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Why rebel?

 

Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.

 

Because we need a politics of kindness, but the very opposite is on the rise. Libertarian fascism, with its triumphal brutalism, its racism and misogyny – a politics that loathes the living world.

 

Because nature is not a hobby. It is the life on which we depend, as Indigenous societies have never forgotten. Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars, and they are lining up now to write rebellion across the skies.

 

From the author of Wild, this passionate, poetic manifesto for urgent rebellion is also a paean to the deep and extraordinary beauty of the natural world.

 

Jay Griffiths has written for the Guardian's comment pages and feature pages. She is a regular columnist for Orion magazine and has written frequently for The Idler. She has contributed to The Observer, the Ecologist, the London Review of Books, the Utne Reader, Wild Earth and Dark Mountain. She has broadcast widely on BBC radio, including Start the Week and Woman's Hour.

 

Radiohead invited Jay Griffiths to write for their newspaper ‘The Universal Sigh'. Her latest book Why Rebel? is out 8 April 2021 on Penguin Books.

 

LINKS FOR FURTHER INFO:

Website: http://jaygriffiths.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PenguinRandomHouse

Twitter: @PenguinUKBooks

 

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Category: Attractions | Talks and Lectures Speaker: Jay Griffiths Time: 15:00 to 16:30