An intimate, impertinent, and incisive collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from Jill Louise Busby , aka Jillisblack.
She lives in Olympia, WA..
She continues to use social media, writing, and film to expose contradictions, challenge performative authenticity, and campaign for accountability.
The video went viral and made her a sought-after speaker of indulgently honest opinions.
About author(s): Jill Louise Busby had worked for years in the nonprofit sector with a focus on diversity and inclusion when she uploaded a short but scathing attack on liberal progressivism and the corporate nonprofit machine.
Unfollow Me is a sharply personal and self-questioning critique of white fragility (and other words for racism), respectability politics (and other words for shame), and all the places where fear masquerades as progress.
Busby\'s social commentary manages to be both wryly funny and achingly open-hearted as she recounts her shape-shifting moves among the subtle hierarchies of progressive communities.
Unfollow Me is a memoir-in-Essays about these scripts; it\'s about tokenism, micro-fame, and inhabiting spaces-real and virtual, black and white-where Complicity is the price of entry.
Both, she realized, were scripted.
As her pithy persona Jillisblack became an it-voice weighing in on all things race-based, Jill began to notice parallels between her performance of diversity in the white corporate world and her performance of wokeness for her followers.
The video received millions of views across social platforms.
In 2016, fed up with what passed as progressive in the Pacific Northwest, Busby uploaded a one-minute video about race, white institutions, and faux liberalism to Instagram.
She spoke at academic institutions, businesses, and detention centers on the topics of Race, Power, and Privilege and delivered over two-hundred workshops to nonprofit organizations all over the California Bay Area.
Jill Louise Busby spent years in the nonprofit sector specializing in Diversity & Inclusion.
An intimate, impertinent, and incisive collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from Jill Louise Busby , aka Jillisblack
