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SUMMARY:Keep Up the Good Fight
DESCRIPTION:Now more than ever we need to be focused in our activism. But w
 e can so easily get activism fatigue. So how do we keep going and standing
  up to injustice whilst looking after ourselves.\nJoin Brighton Book Festi
 val 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.\n\nDr Shola Mos-Shog
 bamimu is a powerful advocate for social change\, avidly campaigning for h
 uman rights and championing social justice. With extensive academic and le
 gal expertise\, challenging systems of oppression\, emphasizing the inters
 ectionality of gender and race. Dr Shola addresses audiences across the gl
 obe on topics of DEI\, leadership\, and workplace culture. She is the Fou
 nder &amp\; Editor of the Women in Leadership\, a diverse  online platfor
 m paving the way for more women leaders. She has co-organized women’s ma
 rches 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\nGina Tonic is a culture and sex writer fro
 m South Wales who has been named 'the writer and editor empowering a gener
 ation 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 t
 he likes of Gemma Collins\, Juno Birch\, CupCakKe\, Chloe Cherry\, Chappel
 l 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.\
 n\nDr Keio Yoshida is an international human rights lawyer and qualified b
 arrister in England and Wales and the Republic of Ireland. They are curren
 tly 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 o
 n women’s rights\, and LGBTQ+ rights. Keio is the author of Pride and Pr
 ejudices : queer lives and the law. A pivotal book which addresses the leg
 al problems that still persist and contribute to the violence and discrimi
 nation that the international LGBTQ+ population experiences on a daily bas
 is. Keio has led the FCDO funded project on gender\, conflict\, and enviro
 nmental peace.
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