Outrage is the New Black: Why Everyone is Shouting But No One is Talking

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Were living in a post-modern utopia of sorts, where thanks to our resolute predecessors, weve checked a bunch of items off our outrage shopping list. Slavery Abolished. Apartheid Not anymore buddy. Womens suffrage Nailed it. But what do you do when you keep winning your battles Well, you pick new ones, of course. Ours is a society where many get by on provocation, the tactless but effective tool of pedalling outrage and we all too quickly take the bait. If outrage has become abundant, activism has definitely become subdued. Are we so exhausted from our hashtags that we simply dont have the energy to be outraged in the real world Or are we simply pretending to be bothered There is still much to be outraged by in our final frontier the gender pay gap, racial bias, gun control but in order to enact change, we must learn to channel our responses. Passionate, funny and unrelentingly wise, this is the essential guide to living through the age of outrage.

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Ashley `Dotty Charles is the host of the BBC Radio 1Xtra Breakfast Show and the co-presenter of BBC Ones Sounds Like Friday Night. She is the first solo female to host 1Xtra Breakfast. Under her rap alias Amplify Dot, she made British music history as the first female MC to sign a major label album deal. She lives in London.