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Calling in : how to start making change with those you'd rather cancel / Loretta J. Ross.
From a pioneering activist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, this memoir-manifesto explores cancel culture, advocating for bridging divides and creating effective communication. Includes insights from the author's work in reproductive rights and justice.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982190798 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: v, 271 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Cancel culture > Social aspects. Communication in social action. Reproductive rights > United States > Biography. Social change. Conflict management > Social aspects. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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- Baker & Taylor
This powerful memoir-manifesto from a Black feminist activist explores how âcalling inâ instead of âcalling outâ can transform conversations, hold people accountable with compassion and foster real change by prioritizing shared values over punitive responses. - Baker & Taylor
This powerful memoir-manifesto from a Black feminist activist explores how "calling in" instead of "calling out" can transform conversations, hold people accountable with compassion and foster real change by prioritizing shared values over punitive responses. - Simon and Schuster
From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur âGeniusâ Fellow, this urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook provides bold, practical new ways to transform conflicts into connections, even with those weâre tempted to walk away from.
In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother in Washington whoâd had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at the DC Rape Crisis Center when the organization got a letter from a man in prison saying he wanted to learn how to not be a rapist anymore. At first, she was furious. As a survivor of sexual violence, she wanted to write back pouring out her rage. Instead, she made a different choice, a choice to reject the response her trauma was pushing her towards. This choice would set her on the path towards developing a framework that would come to guide her whole career: Rather than calling people out, try to call even your unlikeliest allies in. Hold them accountableâbut with love.
Calling In is at once a handbook, a manifesto, and a memoirâbecause the power of Loretta Rossâs message comes from who she is and what sheâs lived through. Sheâs a Black woman whoâs deprogrammed white supremacists, and a survivor whoâs taught convicted rapists the principles of feminism. With stories from her five remarkable decades in activism, she vividly illustrates why calling people inâinviting them into conversation instead of conflict and focusing on your shared values over a desire for punishmentâis the more strategic choice if you want to make real change. And she shows you how to do so, whether in the workplace, on a college campus, or in your living room.
Courageous, awe-inspiring, and blisteringly authentic, Calling In is a âmasterclass in constructive confrontationâ (Adam Grant) and a practical new solution from one of our countryâs most extraordinary change-makersâone anyone can learn to use to transform frustrating and divisive conflicts that stand in the way of real connection with the people in your life.
