pickQuick little insightful audiobook, good for fellow fans of Micaela Cole. I knew her from watching Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You. But I had no idea how much the latter show was based off of her own experiences. I immediately rewatched the whole series in one sitting and WOW that girl really wrote her way through her trauma 🖤🖤She's a genius storyteller and I hope to see more work from her, on screen and page. Loved hearing her voice narrate 🎧
pickTransparent, poignant and with bits of Michaela Coel humor.
pickExpanding on a lecture she delivered at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 2018, British actor and screenwriter Michaela Coel writes about reckoning with her circumstances—growing up Black and poor in London—and learning to celebrate her strengths. Her chief strength is that she is not like everyone else; and in this brief yet dynamic manifesto she reclaims the power of not fitting in.
The term ‘misfits‘ takes on dual notions; a misfit is one who looks at life differently. Many, however, are made into misfits because life looks at them differently.”
I‘ve decided to embrace as many perspectives as I can, and be brave enough to update my beliefs, and discover I‘m not always right. What a brilliant thing, to discover we‘ve been wrong about some things, what a brilliant thing it is to grow.
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto | 
