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Calling In

How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel

by Loretta J Ross
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From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together.
In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who'd had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC's Rape Crisis Center when she got a letter from a man in prison saying he wanted to learn how to not be a rapist anymore. At first, she was furious. As a survivor of sexual violence, she wanted to write back pouring out her rage. But instead, she made a different choice, a choice to reject the response her trauma was pushing her towards, a choice that set her on the path towards developing a philosophy that would come to guide her whole career: rather than calling people out, try to call even your unlikeliest allies in. Hold them accountable—but do so with love.

Calling In is at once a handbook, a manifesto, and a memoir—because the power of Loretta Ross's message comes from who she is and what she's lived through. She's a Black woman who's deprogrammed white supremacists, a survivor who's taught convicted rapists the principles of feminism. With stories from her five remarkable decades in activism, she vividly illustrates why calling people in—inviting them into conversation instead of conflict by focusing on your shared values over a desire for punishment—is the more strategic choice if you want to make real change. And she shows you how to do so, whether in the workplace, on a college campus, or in your living room.

Courageous, awe-inspiring, and blisteringly authentic, Calling In is a practical new solution from one of our country's most extraordinary change-makers—one anyone can learn to use to transform frustrating and divisive conflicts that stand in the way of real connection with the people in your life.

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    February 4, 2025

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      • ISBN: 9781982190811

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    • English

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    • Library Journal

      January 1, 2025

      Ross, a MacArthur Fellow, writes a memoir/manifesto on how to solve problems. Eschewing cancel culture, she advocates instead for calling people in. Ross discusses how she came to this philosophy through her own experiences and her decades of success as an activist. Prepub Alert.

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    • Booklist

      December 1, 2024
      In this combined memoir and self-help book, Ross, coauthor of Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (2017), offers advice on how to find harmony among those with diametrically opposing viewpoints. Through her own experiences, Ross provides guidance on how to use her method of accountability, known as "The 5Cs": calling out, canceling, calling in, calling on, and calling it off. Recounting stories from her decades-long career in activism, Ross shows the 5Cs in action, finding common ground among the most unexpected people. With humor and grace, Ross describes her time in the field doing "opposition research" to deprogram hate-group defectors. "Picture a three-hundred-pound Black woman at a Klan rally. I was as stealthy as fireworks." In another story, Ross, herself a survivor of sexual abuse, establishes a weekly book club in a prison with a group of incarcerated rapists looking to establish an anti-rape movement. For those who would like to see less condemnation and more empathy in the world, Calling In provides a framework for navigating disagreements and finding compromise with just about anyone.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 6, 2025
      In this bracing blend of memoir and manifesto, activist Ross (Radical Reproductive Justice) details her decades of fighting for reproductive rights and calls for her fellow organizers to “build bridges instead of burning them down.” The narrative hinges on Ross’s work for organizations including the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the National Organization for Women, and the Center for Democratic Renewal, focusing especially on the lessons she learned from collaborating with difficult colleagues, including former hate group members and violent criminals. With straightforward language and insightful anecdotes, Ross illuminates the concrete value of bridging divides, detailing the professional successes and personal growth she’s been able to achieve by remaining open to input from “spheres of influence” she’d initially dismissed. She backs up her prescriptive advice (“Value growth over punishment”) with writings by psychologists and thinkers including Audre Lorde and Martin Luther King Jr. Practical without being preachy, this is an invaluable road map for navigating tricky political waters. Agent: David Kuhn, Aevitas Creative Management.

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