The Red Mist: How to channel anger for positive change

Price: From £18

Speakers: Dr Meenal Viz, Elizabeth Anyaegbuna, Diane Danzebrink and Nicky Clark

Open to: Bloom members and non-Bloom members

Tickets available from: Bloom Eventbrite

About this event

So often social media draws our attention to the barriers facing marginalised groups that the mainstream media simply doesn’t pick up. The recent appalling story of the black schoolgirl known as Child Q being strip searched is just one of thousands of examples. At the same time, in our digital echo chambers we share our anger at #metoo stories and the whittling away of women’s abortion rights across America etc.

Experiences like this shock us to the bone and our outrage online is palpable, but are we doing much more than just yelling into the void? It’s clear the internet has been fundamental in creating and galvanising movements when it comes to driving cultural and societal change. But at the same time, it teaches us to treat expressing our anger online as a meaningful action whilst simultaneously stealing the time that we might use to actually enact change.

Our anger can be so much more useful than this. It can provoke action. It is one of the most hopeful and purposeful emotions we have.

Yet few of us are comfortable with this emotion and as women especially, society rarely rewards or supports our displays of anger. All too often we struggle to identify just how to use this and how we can drive change especially when we aren’t in positions of power. But there is so much we can ALL be doing, no matter what our level, no matter what our platform, to drive change and even the smallest acts can help to make a difference.

This inspirational panel session will show some of the everyday actions, inspired by anger, that have helped to change the world. It will help us to become more comfortable with our anger and look at how to harness and channel it in a more effective way, stepping away from words to action.

Our Phenomenal panel:

• Dr Meenal Viz - NHS Protection Campaign

• Nicky Clark - #actingyourage campaign

• Elizabeth Anyaegbuna - Co-Founder sixteenbynine

• Diane Danzebrink - Founder, Menopause Support

The conversation that will leave you:

• More comfortable with feeling anger

• Aware of the work you do and how important it is to support your mission

• More empowered to voice your anger regardless of your place in the world or company infrastructure

• More motivated to act on this and turn your anger into worthwhile activism

• More aware of the need to offer allyship to those whose anger is dismissed or unheard

All profits from ticket sales will go to our charity partner, Women's Aid.