Six Conversations We're Scared to Have - from the Guilty Feminist

Six Conversations We’re Scared to Have – from The Guilty Feminist faces up to one of the biggest challenges in feminism right now – how we can have difficult conversations well, how we can disagree well, how we can build bridges and change minds, including our own. In Deborah’s own words, ‘Six Conversations… is a dialogue I’ve been having with those I trust in private for a long time. This is a conversation I need to be brave enough to have in public. I am part of a movement that has called Time’s Up on top-down power at the expense of those who have been used and discarded. I want to live in a world where people in marginalised groups have a real voice that enacts fast change. I also speak as someone whose formative years were spent in a high control group, where people rarely said what they meant. We said what we needed to, to avoid punishment and shunning which meant our words often didn’t match our thoughts and actions.  I know what that fosters and where it ends. I feel compelled to look at the way our society is changing and look at how we can mature together and build better, stronger, more usable bridges more quickly to make the world a genuinely better place for those who desperately need it to be. And isn’t that all of us right now?’

Deborah has written the exact book the world needs to read right now. Compassionate, rigorous, electric! TRAVIS ALABANZA

If you have ever felt shut down, this book is a godsend. The greatest thing about it is it invites you to disagree just as much as it invites you to re-consider. Writing it was an act of profound philosophical compassion. EMMA THOMPSON