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Keep Up the Good Fight with Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Gina Tonic & Dr Keio Yoshida

Keep Up the Good Fight with Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Gina Tonic & Dr Keio Yoshida

Now more than ever we need to be focused in our activism. But we can so easily get activism fatigue. So how do we keep going and standing up to injustice whilst looking after ourselves. 

Join Brighton Book Festival and the activists seasoned and new, who are making incredible changes, as they tell us their stories of endurance and help us find ways we can keep going when it feels like the fight is too much. 

Sunday June 22nd - 5pm

Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu is a powerful advocate for social change, avidly campaigning for human rights and championing social justice. With extensive academic and legal expertise, challenging systems of oppression, emphasizing the intersectionality of gender and race. Dr Shola addresses audiences across the globe on topics of DEI, leadership, and workplace culture. She is the Founder & Editor of the Women in Leadership, a diverse  online platform paving the way for more women leaders. She has co-organized women’s marches and continues to actively support social campaigns for women. In her book, This Is Why I Resist, she digs down into the deep roots of racism and anti-blackness in the UK

Gina Tonic is a culture and sex writer from South Wales who has been named 'the writer and editor empowering a generation of fat babes' by Dazed Beauty. With bylines in Vice, Refinery29 and more, in 2020 Gina founded her fat liberation publication, The Fat Zine. Holding the role of senior editor at intersectional feminist publication Polyester, Gina commissions weekly written content and has interviewed the likes of Gemma Collins, Juno Birch, CupCakKe, Chloe Cherry, Chappell Roan and more. Greedy Guts is her first book. With candour, heart and humour, she invites us to rethink beauty standards, fatphobic culture - and ourselves - and shows how fat and female liberation go hand in hand.

Dr Keio Yoshida is an international human rights lawyer and qualified barrister in England and Wales and the Republic of Ireland. They are currently a senior legal advisor at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and an associate tenant at Doughty Street Chambers. Prior to joining the Center, they worked as a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers on landmark cases on women’s rights, and LGBTQ+ rights. Keio is the author of Pride and Prejudices : queer lives and the law. A pivotal book which addresses the legal problems that still persist and contribute to the violence and discrimination that the international LGBTQ+ population experiences on a daily basis. Keio has led the FCDO funded project on gender, conflict, and environmental peace.


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