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RENI EDDO-LODGE The author and journalist discusses her controversial book on race One of the themes at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival is This Woman Can. The strand features several endurance cyclists, in partnership with Women’s Cycling Forum Scotland as well as courageous stories of survival, celebrations of female role models and feminist thinkers leading the discussions on race, equality and gender. And one of our top picks from the strand is freelance journalist and blogger Reni Eddo-Lodge. Eddo-Lodge is the author of 2016’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, a seething take-down of commonly held attitudes towards race and racism in the UK and beyond. The book sparked i erce discussion and continues to inform debates about race and its relationship to privilege, class and gender. Chaired by The Guardian’s Claire Armitstead, the event has BSL interpretation. (Rowena McIntosh) Reni Eddo-Lodge, Charlotte Square Gardens, 18 Aug, 4pm, £12 (£10).

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