Radical Repair

Myisha Cherry and Donna Bailey Nurse

6:00pm

Friday, September 22

60 mins

Sages from Cicero to Oprah have told us that to heal our wounds forgiveness requires us to let go of negative emotions. In Failures of Forgiveness, philosopher and Director of the Emotion and Society Lab, Myisha Cherry argues that these beliefs couldn’t be more wrong—and that the ways we think about and use forgiveness, personally and as a society, can often do more harm than good. In conversation with Donna Bailey Nurse, she presents a new and healthier understanding of forgiveness—one that will give us a better chance to recover from wrongdoing and move toward “radical repair.”

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

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This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Myisha Cherry

Myisha Cherry is associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, where she also directs the Emotion and Society Lab. She is the author of The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle and UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, which draws on her popular podcast UnMute. She has been widely featured in the media, including the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, the Atlantic, BET and the podcast Pod Save the People.

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Donna Bailey Nurse

Donna Bailey Nurse is a Canadian literary critic, curator and writer. She is the author of What’s a Black Critic To Do? and the editor of Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing. Donna is a contributor to the Walrus, The Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada and a columnist for CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter. She was a jury member for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize and is currently at work on a Black history book for Harper Collins Canada, part of a two-book deal that includes a memoir of her Jamaican family.