Baroness Lola Young
The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey is a British crossbench peer, actress, academic and campaigner whose public identity sits at the intersection of the arts, cultural policy, higher education, and human-rights legislation.
“But how can we not keep saying that to children and young people in the system and say ask them, how can we support you? What would you like to be done that would make your life so much better and easier given that you've got these somewhat difficult circumstances that you've been thrown into? How can we make that?”
“Yeah, that is an interesting question because we bandy about terms quite sort of in a footloose kind of way, you know, when you think about being traumatized or having cathartic experiences and everything. So I don't want to kind of make it, you know, too much sound like I'm some kind of amateur psychiatrist or whatever.”
“Well, it's interesting because I had written a book before, but it was a very different kind of a book. It was an academic book, and that's more or less straightforward. You just got to plough through it and read all your sources and everything.”
“But also metaphorically in South Africa. So we wanted to say, well, we'll join that struggle on our own terms. Know, tried to do so through the union and called for boycotts and all the rest of it. But it was quite a tumultuous time within the union and we tried to make out our feelings and experiences felt.”
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