Do The Work
A guide to understanding power and creating change.
1st Edition
Published on 18. June 2024
128 pages
978-0-7112-6897-5 (ISBN)
Description
Challenge your biases and broaden your understanding of power and how we wield it with this essential guide.
Power is complex. But Do The Work is a guide to navigating those complexities. From ancient theories of power to contemporary examples, from cultural patterns to personal insights, this guide provides a foundation for examining hierarchies and inequalities and establishes a framework for understanding power and how it shapes our lives and communities.
Between these pages, theory, commentary, and analysis create an engaging, creative, and mindful reading experience. This guide features approachable overviews of complex topics, thought-provoking questions, evocative illustrations, pages for your reflections, and steps we can all take to reframe our relationship to power and reinvigorate our desire to empower the people around us.
Thanks to the work of writer and scholar Megan Pillow, educator and New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay, and New York Times bestselling illustrator Aurelia Durand, Do The Work is a must-read for a more just future-and a more equitable now.
Do The Work asks:
What can we learn about power from history and from our current moment?
Who are the powerful, and who are the people denied power?
Where are our own sources of power?
How do we recognize our mistakes and become more self-aware?
What does it mean to reclaim our power and to build community?
Do The Work explains:
How theorists from Aristotle to Hannah Arendt have shaped our understanding of power
Why Kimberle Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality is at the heart of power discussions
What Laura Mulvey and Audre Lorde can teach us about power and gender
How poverty, redlining, and The Voting Rights Act all illustrate power imbalances
What the Stonewall Riots showed us about resistance and community
How to train ourselves in collective thinking, and what it means to "choose the margins"
Power is complex. But Do The Work is a guide to navigating those complexities. From ancient theories of power to contemporary examples, from cultural patterns to personal insights, this guide provides a foundation for examining hierarchies and inequalities and establishes a framework for understanding power and how it shapes our lives and communities.
Between these pages, theory, commentary, and analysis create an engaging, creative, and mindful reading experience. This guide features approachable overviews of complex topics, thought-provoking questions, evocative illustrations, pages for your reflections, and steps we can all take to reframe our relationship to power and reinvigorate our desire to empower the people around us.
Thanks to the work of writer and scholar Megan Pillow, educator and New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay, and New York Times bestselling illustrator Aurelia Durand, Do The Work is a must-read for a more just future-and a more equitable now.
Do The Work asks:
What can we learn about power from history and from our current moment?
Who are the powerful, and who are the people denied power?
Where are our own sources of power?
How do we recognize our mistakes and become more self-aware?
What does it mean to reclaim our power and to build community?
Do The Work explains:
How theorists from Aristotle to Hannah Arendt have shaped our understanding of power
Why Kimberle Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality is at the heart of power discussions
What Laura Mulvey and Audre Lorde can teach us about power and gender
How poverty, redlining, and The Voting Rights Act all illustrate power imbalances
What the Stonewall Riots showed us about resistance and community
How to train ourselves in collective thinking, and what it means to "choose the margins"
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Illustrations
100
File size
3,95 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7112-6897-5 (9780711268975)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
approx. 06/2024
Leaping Hare Press
€15.50
Not yet published
Persons
Roxane Gay is an American writer, editor, and professor. She is the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a collection of pioneering essays and the memoir, Hunger as well as several other books. In April 2018, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and also writes the Work Friend column. Her work can also be found in The Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, Harper's Bazaar, McSweeney's and many other publications. She holds an endowed professorship at Rutgers University and has also taught at Purdue and Yale. She is currently at work on film and television projects, and has launched her own publishing imprint, Roxane Gay Books.
Megan Pillow is an American writer, editor, and scholar. She is project manager for Roxane Gay and co-editor of The Audacity, an innovative, integrity-driven newsletter inclusive of diverse voices. She holds an MFA and a PhD. Her work has appeared, among other places, in Electric Literature, Guernica, Triquarterly, and Gay Magazine and was featured in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022. Aurelia Durand is a French graphic artist. Her work, which includes the illustrations for the #1 New York Times bestseller This Book Is Anti-Racist, is a vivid celebration of diversity; she dedicates her artistic voice to matters involving representation. Aurelia represents Afro-descendants as joyful, proud, and empowered-a united community whose destinies are intertwined. These colorful personalities present the unified voice of a global community whose hopes, dreams, and desires envision an inclusive future for all. Her work has been featured in advertising campaigns, galleries, and editorial magazines; her clients include Nike, The New Yorker, Facebook, and more. Find her on Instagram: @4ur3lia.
Megan Pillow is an American writer, editor, and scholar. She is project manager for Roxane Gay and co-editor of The Audacity, an innovative, integrity-driven newsletter inclusive of diverse voices. She holds an MFA and a PhD. Her work has appeared, among other places, in Electric Literature, Guernica, Triquarterly, and Gay Magazine and was featured in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022. Aurelia Durand is a French graphic artist. Her work, which includes the illustrations for the #1 New York Times bestseller This Book Is Anti-Racist, is a vivid celebration of diversity; she dedicates her artistic voice to matters involving representation. Aurelia represents Afro-descendants as joyful, proud, and empowered-a united community whose destinies are intertwined. These colorful personalities present the unified voice of a global community whose hopes, dreams, and desires envision an inclusive future for all. Her work has been featured in advertising campaigns, galleries, and editorial magazines; her clients include Nike, The New Yorker, Facebook, and more. Find her on Instagram: @4ur3lia.
