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SUMMARY:Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance - Gary Youn
 ge (Faber Lecture)
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DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author\, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology
  at The University of Manchester\, Gary Younge\, delivers the inaugural 
 Faber Lecture. In Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance\
 , Gary explores what has been termed as the ‘burden of representation’ a
 nd the pressures exerted upon the relatively small group of people from 
 underrepresented communities who break through into elite spaces and the
  expectations that may come from those with power and those without. The
 se are issues that have framed\, frustrated\, inspired and inflected his
  entire working life as a writer.\n\nIn this incisive and moving persona
 l lecture\, Gary offers reflections on how to navigate representation\, 
 power and responsibility whilst keeping your job\, your sanity and your 
 freedom both as a human being and as a writer.\n\nGary Younge is an awar
 d-winning journalist and former Editor at Large for The Guardian. In 202
 5 he was awarded the Robert B. Silvers Award for Journalism and in 2023 
 he received the Orwell Prize for Journalism. He has written seven books 
 including Another Day in the Death of America and Dispatches from the Di
 aspora\; From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Friends' Meeting House\, 6 Mount St\, Manchester \, M2 5NS
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