WE NEED NEW STORIES is the first book Ive read that makes sense of where we are.

She is the author of We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind our Age of Discontent. The most successful chapters of We Need New Stories are the central four, which tackle claims that political correctness has run away with itself, free speech is under threat, identity. Her work focuses on British politics and global movements for social inclusion. This is a lucid reminder that the fight for equality is a battle of ideas. Nesrine Malik writes with urgent eloquence about the world we live in. Nesrine Malik is a columnist and features writer for The Guardian. One such notion is that mainstream media outlets such as the BBC are neutral observers and not part of white-led, establishmentarian networks that “speaks truth’s power.” She also traces the origin of the idea that political correctness “stifl free thought and intellectual inquiry” to think tanks funded by wealthy conservatives in order to combat the influence of liberal universities, and shows how self-interested social media companies have helped push the narrative that free speech protections should be “as absolute as possible,” even when the speech in question “silences the voices of others or puts them in danger of violence.” Disputing the myth that feminism has gone too far and now seeks to marginalize men, Malik points to the rollback of abortion rights, the persistence of the gender pay gap, and the lack of protections against “cybersexual harassment.” Malik fluidly incorporates her experiences as a media commentator and the daughter of a conservative Muslim family, and draws on the work of scholars including Judith Butler and Jerry Lembcke. Guardian columnist Malik debuts with a persuasive debunking of political and cultural myths that impede social justice in the U.S. We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent Author: Nesrine Malik ISBN-13: 978-1474610407 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Guideline Price: 16.99 Last.

We need new stories by nesrine malik