{"product_id":"calling-in-how-to-start-making-change-with-those-youd-rather-cancel-9781668205419","title":"Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Loretta J Ross\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who’d had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC’s Rape Crisis Center when she 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. But instead, she made a different choice, a choice to reject the response her trauma was pushing her towards, a choice that set her on the path towards developing a philosophy that would come to guide her whole career: rather than calling people out, try to call even your unlikeliest allies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Hold them accountable―but do so with love.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCalling In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is at once a handbook, a manifesto, and a memoir―because the power of Loretta Ross’s message comes from who she is and what she’s lived through. She’s a Black woman who’s deprogrammed white supremacists, a survivor who’s taught convicted rapists the principles of feminism. With stories from her five remarkable decades in activism, she vividly illustrates why calling people\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e―inviting them into conversation instead of conflict by focusing on your shared values over a desire for punishment―is 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCourageous, awe-inspiring, and blisteringly authentic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCalling In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a practical new solution from one of our country’s most extraordinary change-makers―one 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45847908712599,"sku":"9781668205419","price":1183.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781668205419.webp?v=1769297289","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/calling-in-how-to-start-making-change-with-those-youd-rather-cancel-9781668205419","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}