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Andrew Boyd | |
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| File:Andrew-boyd.jpg Andrew Boyd advertising his collection of tools for activists, Beautiful Trouble | |
| Born | 1963 (age 61–62) New York City, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | University of Michigan |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and thinker |
| Known for | Writer, poet, activist |
| Notable work | Beautiful Trouble, Activist Cookbook, I Want a Better Catastrophe |
Andrew Boyd (born 1966 in New York City) is a United States author, humorist and veteran of creative campaigns for social change. He led the decade-long satirical media campaign Billionaires for Bush. He co-founded Agit-Pop Communications, an award-winning “subvertising” agency, as well as the netroots social justice movement The Other 98%. He's the author of four books: Beautiful Trouble, Daily Afflictions, Life’s Little Deconstruction Book and the Activist Cookbook, and the forthcoming I Want a Better Catastrophe: Hope, Hopelessness and Climate Reality. He lives in New York City.
Biography
Andrew grew up in Manhattan while his father taught at New York University. He attend University of Michigan and became radicalized around the global peace movement at 19. During a year-off from University he travelled to California where he attended his first nonviolence training in preparation for a big civil disobedience protest at a weapons factory. This event opened the door to what has been a lifelong passion of public activism. [1]
His first book, The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy (United for a Fair Economy , 1997), a hands-on manual that showcased some of the best media stunts, street theater skits and creative direct actions from the labor and social justice movements.
His second book, Life's Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hip (W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), A tiny manual that provides an introduction to theoretical posturing, a commentary on postmodernism, a subversive satire, and a tribute to the love-hate relationship many of us have with fashionable ideas — all in a very few words.
His third book, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe, published in 2002 by W. W. Norton & Company is a dark, twisted, existential manifesto posing as a book of daily inspiration.[2]
His fourth book, Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution (OR Books, 2012), is an invaluable activist resource. It assembles the best ideas of 10 groundbreaking organizations and over 70 troublemakers into a set of interlocking design principles. The complete work is available online which has allowed for updating and for availability regardless of economic privilege in a searchable database of stories, tactics, principles, and theories. In 2018, Andrew was co-editor of the toolkit for activists from the perspective of the global South, Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South (OR Books, 2018).
Books
As Author
- Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution (2012, OR Books) ISBN 1935928570
- Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe (2002, W. W. Norton & Company) ISBN 978-0-393-32281-1
- Life's Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hip (1998, W. W. Norton & Company) ISBN 0393318702}
- The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy (1997, United for a Fair Economy) ISBN 0965924904
As Editor
- Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South (2018, OR Books) ISBN 1944869816
Monologues
- 12 Characters in Search of an Apocalypse - published in issue 11 of The Dark Mountain Project ISBN 9780995540217
References
- ^ Kavita Kulkarni (August 2004). "Interview with Andrew Boyd, Schmoozer-in-Chief of the Billionaires for Bush".
- ^ "Daily Afflictions". W. W. Norton & Company.
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