{"product_id":"unfollow-me-essays-on-complicity-9781635577112","title":"Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity","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\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50482406719762,"sku":"9781635577112","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b491e81-8291-4e5e-8835-d3de39f7b930.jpg?v=1730343994","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unfollow-me-essays-on-complicity-9781635577112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}