Evie Muir in conversation with L’Oréal Blackett: Radical Rest

House of Books & Friends are thrilled to welcome Evie Muir to discuss their new book Radical Rest with L’Oréal Blackett on Tuesday, 17th September! Radical Rest: Notes on burnout, healing and hopeful futures is Evie’s first book which explores what radical rest would look and feel like, through a Black Feminist, abolitionist and nature-allied lens. Speaking to those who have been disproportionately affected by burnout, Muir gives us hope that we can experience a healed future. This event will include a discussion between Evie and L’Oréal, an audience Q&A, and a chance to get your book signed.

Tickets

£5 Ticket only (this is redeemable against a copy of the book on the evening of the event)
£16.99 Book and Ticket (available to collect on the evening of the event)

As always, we have a limited amount of complimentary tickets for this event for anyone who needs it. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com or call 07597365380.

About the book

We’re burnt out. Exhausted; anxiety-ridden; over-worked and under-resourced. Yet the ‘solution’ cannot possibly lie in self-care, yoga retreats or the odd massage when this bone-numbing fatigue is a symptom of a desperately unhealthy society. 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. Step in and open the door to a hopeful and healed future.

About the author

Evie Muir is both a domestic abuse survivor and qualified domestic abuse specialist, writer and the founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District based nature-for-healing community group, by and for people of colour.

Having worked in the VAWG sector for over 10 years, specialising in Black and queer survivors’ intersectional experiences of gendered and racialised trauma, she left the sector 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. As a Northern freelance writer, she’s passionate about the liberating form of writing as healing and resistance.

About L’Oréal Blackett

L’Oréal Blacket is a journalist, magazine editor and broadcaster from Manchester. In her current role as Unbothered UK editor at Refinery29, L’Oréal’s work celebrates the multifaceted lives of Black women and also fosters a platform for underrepresented voices.