num_pages: 224
description: An intimate impertinent and incisive collection about race progress and hypocrisy from Jill Louise Busby aka Jillisblack.Jill Louise Busby spent years in the nonprofit sector specializing in Diversity &amp; 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.In 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.Unfollow Me 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. Unfollow Me 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.
language: English
title: Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing