Reviews with content warning for Racial slurs - Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

What a beautiful, bite-sized book about shifting your perspective outside of yourself. About noticing the struggles of others, and doing something to change the status quo. I love Michaela Coel’s tv series Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You. This book had some humor from the first and the reflectiveness and seriousness of the latter.

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informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

interesting and some insightful reflections on entering the tv industry as a misfit (especially as a young working class black woman) but I wouldn’t say it’s anything sensational or truly eye opening for me

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challenging funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

Misfits is both a condemnation of exclusion and a demand for change. Michaela Coel makes an incredibly effective argument for how real impactful art begins with the individual expressing their truth. And how important it is to uplift the voices of the marginalized, the "misfits."

Though I know nothing about the innerworkings British film industry, I can definitely imagine that this speech made quite a splash.

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