Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle oppressive systems while building liberating new ones. There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize the way things have been done before can and will no longer serve us. Be it the way we approach a relationship, a belief system, our activism, our work, our education, or even our rest. For activist, philanthropist, and CEO Rachel Cargle, reimagining these sectors of her life has been a lifelong process. From a small-town Christian wife trying to convince herself that her desires mattered to becoming an incisive queer feminist voice of a generation, reimagining has been a tool for Rachel's reawakening and personal transformation.
In A Renaissance of Our Own, Rachel shares, alternating painful and other times inspiring, breaking points in her life that fostered more than just a truer personal identity but also offer a blueprint for all of us to begin the process of using our imaginations to live in alignment with our own values. Rachel learned to craft a world independent of oppressive constructs that allowed her to critically examine her surroundings. She invites readers to do the same, to take inventory of our lives and acknowledge the ways of being that have been passed down by societal expectations that are not reflections of our most authentic selves. Rachel provides the tools and prompts that she used to unearth and align her own life to be a more authentic feminist, lover, and purpose-driven matriarchal leader.
A Renaissance of Our Own serves as a reminder of the power and possibility of reimagining to live a life that feels right, all the way down in the marrow of your bones.
Synopsis
From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful testament to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building new ones that do. There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before just don't work for us anymore, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest. For activist, philanthropist, and CEO Rachel E. Cargle, reimagining--the act of creating in our minds that which does not exist but that we believe can and should--has been a lifelong process. Reimagining served as the most powerful catalyst for Cargle's personal transformation from a small-town Christian wife to an incisive queer feminist voice of a generation.
In A Renaissance of Our Own, we witness the sometimes painful but always inspiring breaking points in Cargle's life that fostered a truer identity. These defining moments offer a blueprint for how we must all use our imagination--the space that sees beyond limits--to live in alignment with our highest values and to craft a world independent of oppressive structures, both personal and societal. Cargle now invites you to acknowledge ways of being that stem from societal expectations instead of your personal truth, and to embark on a renaissance of your own. She provides the very tools and prompts that she used to unearth her own truth, tools that opened her up to being a more authentic feminist and purpose-driven matriarchal leader.
A Renaissance of Our Own gives us the courage to look at the world and say "I want something different." It serves as a reminder of the power and possibility of reimagining a life that feels right, all the way down to the marrow of your bones.