21/10/2022
Come and meet Dr. Lisa McKenzie, the person behind the original idea of the brilliant book, 'Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class'.
Dr. McKenzie is a member of the 'Working Class Collective' and author of 'Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain,' as well as a commentator on various political and social issues.
'Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class' gives a voice to working class men and women under lockdown, a voice often drowned out or paid lip service to.
From the 'Working Class Collective' website:
"In March 2020, like the rest of the world, Lisa Mckenzie was fixated on breaking news – a pandemic had hit us and we were locked down and isolated from our lives and each other. The narrative was already being set by those with power and wealth and influence – they would decide who the victims, the heroes, and the villains would be.
The Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class was born in those early months on the first lockdown in 2020 - the voices, the lives and experiences of working-class people would not be narrated for them – 47 people answered a call out to write diaries, six artists interpreted those words through their art, while others supported the process. Seven hundred people backed the idea through a crowdfunding campaign – the result was a book titled ‘Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class’ and a collective was born – a working-class collective committed to telling the stories and offering support to other working-class people who know that the narrative about them is wrong."
Buy the book here: https://www.workingclasscollective.co.uk/
(Better still, come to the bookfair and grab one)
