This timely, necessary book is a rousing coming-to-power manifesto dedicated to anyone who has ever worried about fitting in. Misfits is a triumphant call for honesty, empathy and inclusion.
An artist to her core, Coel holds up the path of the creative as an emblem of our need to regard one another with care and respect - and transparency. By embracing our differences, she says, we can transform our lives. With inspiring insight and wit, she tells of her reckoning with trauma and metamorphosis into a champion for herself, inclusivity and radical honesty, and in telling her journey invites us to reflect on our own. Building on this speech, Misfits immerses readers in her deeply personal vision through powerful allegory and anecdotes - from her East London upbringing to her discovery of theatre and love for storytelling. But in the end, the person most impacted was Coel herself. Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Lecture touched a lot of people with her striking revelations about race, class and gender. Coel’s safeguard against the ever-present racism and school-sanctioned bigotry was her posse: ‘the abundance of Black girls, White girls, mixed girls, misfits my friends were all misfits: a huge gang of commercially unattractive, beautiful misfits, who found the mainstream world unattractive.
A personal and powerful book about the life-changing power of transparency.įrom the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in. The ground-breaking much-awaited debut by leading British star Michaela Coel.
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