Scan barcode
A review by xxivo
Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World Without a Bullhorn by Omkari Williams
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
This book was very inspiring and helped guide me towards what actions to take.
So this book is above all a call for action. But not huge actions, micro activism actions. It explains how you can be an activist in your own way, without needing to make huge speeches on stages if you don't want to. In multiple steps it explains how you can do this and what things would be useful to do and it gave me many ideas on what I want. It shows that small things help too, small things like cleaning a building of an organization. Or sharing food at protests for those who need it. Or maybe doing computer work to plan an protest without needing to attend it yourself when you are for example disabled. All of those are valuable and needed too and I really liked how the book stressed that point.
This book explains 4 types of activists that people could belong to or partially belong too. It has a quiz as well that can help you out figure out which type fits best for you. It then also gives lists of actions and ideas for what you can do belonging to your type in your activists journey. It was nice because this made it easy for me to realize that some things I hadn't thought that would fit me quite definitely could. It was nice as well that it emphasised that your type can change and you're absolutely not limited to one. It gave it a nice framework to hold on too but not making it too restrictive.
Throughout the book as well it has short mini interviews with various activists the author knows. I really liked having an insight in many different kind of activists. Many stories and books about known activists online are the bigger names, those who go on the stages and lead the protest. But this book showed many other people too who do the smaller tasks. It was nice to have these people as living examples of what I also could do.
All together this book was really enlightening for my own activism journey and I feel like it really made me ready to set more steps and be the activist I want to be.
I received an eARC through Netgalley and this was my honest review.
So this book is above all a call for action. But not huge actions, micro activism actions. It explains how you can be an activist in your own way, without needing to make huge speeches on stages if you don't want to. In multiple steps it explains how you can do this and what things would be useful to do and it gave me many ideas on what I want. It shows that small things help too, small things like cleaning a building of an organization. Or sharing food at protests for those who need it. Or maybe doing computer work to plan an protest without needing to attend it yourself when you are for example disabled. All of those are valuable and needed too and I really liked how the book stressed that point.
This book explains 4 types of activists that people could belong to or partially belong too. It has a quiz as well that can help you out figure out which type fits best for you. It then also gives lists of actions and ideas for what you can do belonging to your type in your activists journey. It was nice because this made it easy for me to realize that some things I hadn't thought that would fit me quite definitely could. It was nice as well that it emphasised that your type can change and you're absolutely not limited to one. It gave it a nice framework to hold on too but not making it too restrictive.
Throughout the book as well it has short mini interviews with various activists the author knows. I really liked having an insight in many different kind of activists. Many stories and books about known activists online are the bigger names, those who go on the stages and lead the protest. But this book showed many other people too who do the smaller tasks. It was nice to have these people as living examples of what I also could do.
All together this book was really enlightening for my own activism journey and I feel like it really made me ready to set more steps and be the activist I want to be.
I received an eARC through Netgalley and this was my honest review.