Wish We Knew What to Say

Praise for Sway'Agarwal's diagnosis of the political harms of bias is passionate and urgent' Guardian, Book of the Week'Fascinating, sometimes challenging, read, for fans of Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women and Angela Saini's Superior' BBC Science Focus'This book exposes the insidiousness of unconscious bias and offers us a way to change the way we think that is practical, useful, readable and essential for the times we are living in' Nikesh Shukla, author and editor of The Good Immigrant'An exhaustive, brilliantly researched survey of bias and how it seeps so easily into our everyday thoughts and actions, from gender essentialism to casual racism. Calmly and without polemic, Agarwal explains why we all need to work harder to avoid lazy prejudice and simplistic narratives if we are to build a fairer society' Angela Saini von Agarwal, Dr Pragya