{"product_id":"9781635577112","title":"Unfollow Me : Essays on Complicity","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eUnfollow Me\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jill Louise Busby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate, impertinent, and incisive collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jill lets us know out the gate that she ain't come to play. \u003cb\u003eThis book is real, raw, and unrelenting. Dark, satirical, full of brilliance and bad ass'ness. \u003c\/b\u003eNow is definitely not the time to be unfollowing Jill.” —\u003ci\u003eKiller Mike\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For anyone who has ever heard they were too much, not enough, and right on time all in the same day, this book will assure you that you're not crazy. \u003cb\u003eA pleasure, even in all its painful, powerful truths.\u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eMeshell Ndegeocello\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cb\u003eJill Louise Busby's \u003ci\u003eUnfollow Me\u003c\/i\u003e reminds me of just how much courage I lack. \u003c\/b\u003eIt forced me to challenge who I've presented myself as, and to confront the invisible but thick tether between irreverence and conformity, especially as it pertains to conversations and stances around identity and technology. Busby's voice is sharp, but what's sharper is the feeling that \u003cb\u003eBusby is asking us to complicate our arguments and muster up the moxie to sort and see our many selves in a more honest light. And for that, I am grateful\u003c\/b\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eJason Reynolds, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN, the TRACK series, LONG WAY DOWN, and STAMPED, a collaboration with Ibram X. Kendi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Busby has gifted us \u003cb\u003ewords that sing on the page with the insightful, poetic, and witty euphony\u003c\/b\u003e that many of us have come to appreciate from her creative content online. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnfollow Me \u003c\/i\u003edemands a follow, a like, a heart emoji, and a reader who is not afraid to be floored\u003c\/b\u003e by Busby's incisive take on so many old inequities that ghost us still.” —\u003ci\u003eDarnell L. Moore, author of NO ASHES IN THE FIRE: COMING OF AGE BLACK \u0026amp; FREE IN AMERICA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Frank, incisive, brutally funny, and moving, \u003cb\u003eBusby has a gift for vivifying the keenest cultural observations with cutting, unflinching prose.\u003c\/b\u003e I devoured this book.” —\u003ci\u003eAmanda Montell, author of WORDSLUT and CULTISH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnfollow Me\u003c\/i\u003e is an emotionally risky, trope-turning manifesto of a book\u003c\/b\u003e. Whether she's writing a letter to white hippiecrites, describing the disassociation that comes with online personas, or exploring the hell that can be micro-fame, her excavation is distinctive and nuanced.\u003cb\u003e Jill Louise Busby for President.\u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eChloé Caldwell, author of I'LL TELL YOU IN PERSON and WOMEN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnfo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ellow Me\u003c\/i\u003e challenges how we think about each other and ourselves in a way that is nuanced, funny, and vulnerable. \u003cb\u003eReading this book is like listening to your smartest friend.\u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eMia Mercado, author of WEIRD BUT NORMAL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stirring take on a young woman's search for identity and the fight for racial equity.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781635577112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40823024845006,"sku":"9781635577112","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_da2cc7b6-552f-4cde-82f2-7f4e9e4ecd23.jpg?v=1643098594","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781635577112","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}