The Revolution Will Be Internalised: Anouchka Grose in Conversation with Monique Roffey
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We're super excited to welcome Anouchka Grose and Monique Roffey to The Old School Rooms on 26th Feb to discuss the ways we can alter our interior lives to resist capitalism.
Anouchka, a leading psychotherapist specialising in climate anxiety, was in general happy with her London life which included a glamorous partner, a teenager, even a spare room.
But, shaken by the apparent futility of Western activism in the face of inertia and corruption, she began to question her choices, both material and emotional. Instead of seeking outward answers she went inwards, creating an alternative Eat, Pray, Love for the polycrisis.
Inner prepping, or altering your private, interior world as a form of civil resistance, is an oblique way of coming at the classic feminist idea that the personal is political. Grose takes us on an exhilarating, funny, erudite and ultimately uplifting tour of the practices she tried out, including ego-dismantling retreats, animal communication, and tantra, offering myriad ways to revolutionise ourselves and others.
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Anouchka Grose
Anouchka Grose is a London-based psychoanalyst, writer, lecturer and climate campaigner. Her nine published books include A Guide to Eco-Anxiety: how to protect the planet and your mental health, Uneasy Listening: notes on Hearing and Being Heard and Fashion: a Manifesto. She has contributed to the Guardian, Granta, Harpers Bazaar and Radio 4, as well as appearing in Josh Appignanesi's documentary My Extinction.
Monique Roffey
Monique Roffey, FRSL, is an award-winning Trinidadian born British writer of novels, essays, literary journalism and a memoir. Her latest novel, Passiontide, was published in June 2024. The Mermaid of Black Conch, won the Costa Book of the Year Award, 2020, and was nominated for eight other awards. Her other Caribbean novels, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle and House of Ashes have also been nominated for awards. Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature in 2013. Her work has been translated into many languages and adapted for screen. She is a member of the Hard Art collective and co-organiser of Hey! Festivals. She is also a Professor of Contemporary Fiction and a member of the Centre for Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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