IN NOVEMBER 2016, MANY PEOPLE WOKE UP TO A WORLD THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE: A NEW PRESIDENT WAS IN POWER. TWENTY-FOUR HOUR NEWS COVERAGE AND SOCIAL MEDIA UNFOLDED LIKE A HORROR FILM. ALL AT ONCE, EVERYTHING CHANGED.

In 2016, Journalist Lauren Duca produced a piece for Teen Vogue titled Donald Trump is Gaslighting America. It went viral and signaled a shift for millennials from political alienation to political participation. In How to Start a Revolution, Duca investigates and explains the issues at the root of an ailing political system and reimagines what an equitable democracy would look like. It begins with young people getting involved. She discusses Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress; the schoolchildren and survivors of mass shootings who are advocating for gun control; many young political activists who are founding nonprofit organizations to help inform progressive people as they use their voice in elections. Throughout, she also draws on her own story as a young woman catapulted to the front lines of the political conversation, navigating this through social media and dealing with sustained attacks from those who disagree with her views.

How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of Politics explores how millennials are the key to political change and provides knowledge and tools of how to make the most of a political awakening.

About the Author
Lauren Duca is an award-winning journalist best known for her massively viral piece 'Donald Trump is Gaslighting America' in Teen Vogue and an interview with Tucker Carlson. Her writing can be found in the New York Times, New Yorker and New York magazine, as well as in her ongoing column for Teen Vogue: 'Thigh-High Politics.' She graduated from Fordham University and holds a masters from New York University, where she is currently a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She's mostly just trying to get you to follow her on Twitter: @LaurenDuca.

Reviews
The firebrand journalist explores how young people can challenge the status quo * The i *
Duca is the millennial feminist warrior queen of social media -- Ariel Levy
Lauren Duca is the kind of writer that makes you cackle, cheer, and, more important, confront where we are and where we need to go as a culture -- Janet Mock
In this inspiring guide . . . Duca's conversational prose and clear passion for equality allow her to galvanize without preaching. This call to action will resonate even with those who are not already involved in progressive politics * Publishers Weekly *
We need fresh, intelligent, and creative voices like Lauren's now as much-perhaps more-than ever before -- Dan Rather



Book Information
ISBN 9780349011929
Author Lauren Duca
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 240g
Dimensions(mm) 232mm * 150mm * 28mm