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In Conversation: Evie Muir 6th September
In Conversation: Evie Muir 6th September
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Afrori Books is thrilled to host the incredible Evie Muir as she joins us to speak about trauma, burnout and her new book Radical Rest. Come along for an evening of healing as we discuss what it means to rest.
Date: 6th September Time: 7pm
Evie Muir (she/they), is a nature writer and founder of Peaks of Colour - a Peak District based nature-for-healing community group, by and for people of colour.
Having worked in the Violence Against Women and Girls sector for over 10 years', specialising in Black and queer survivors' intersectional experiences of gendered and racialised trauma, she left when she became burnt out, disenfranchised and disillusioned. Her work now sits on the intersections of gendered, racial and land justice, and seeks to nurture survivors' joy, rest, hope and imagination as abolitionist praxis.
Advocating for the decolonisation of the outdoors, she is interested in the ways nature can forge a landscape of healing and justice outside of carceral feminist models.
As a Northern freelance writer she is passionate about the liberating form of writing as healing and resistance
The Book
We cannot simply ‘fix ourselves’ under a system that demands and takes so much of us. What is needed is a complete reimagining that puts a thriving life of abundance first and foremost. Through a Black Feminist, abolitionist and nature-allied lens, Evie Muir takes us on a journey of regeneration that reimagines what a world of true rest – radical rest – would look like, how that would feel. As they look to activists and cultural influences past and present for guidance, Evie explores the core emotions associated with burnout: moving from rage, grief and anxiety to the hope, joy and plenty that deep change can bring.
Along the way, Evie speaks with those who have been disproportionately impacted by, and working in resistance to, burnout – Black, queer, disabled activists of colour. And what becomes clear as we hear about these lived experiences is that a world of radical rest must exist in community – with one another, with our bodies, and with the natural world. Bold, vulnerable and deeply honest, Radical Rest is a blueprint for change and a salve for the soul.
Along the way, Evie speaks with those who have been disproportionately impacted by, and working in resistance to, burnout – Black, queer, disabled activists of colour. And what becomes clear as we hear about these lived experiences is that a world of radical rest must exist in community – with one another, with our bodies, and with the natural world. Bold, vulnerable and deeply honest, Radical Rest is a blueprint for change and a salve for the soul.
