DIY Rules for a WTF World

DIY Rules for a WTF World: How to Speak Up, Get Creative, and Change the World by Krista Suh       Audio Book: 4 hours, 52 mins     Hardback Book:  256 pages         

Krista Suh has a very likeable style of writing.   She really brings the reader in as she discusses her life in Hollywood as a screenwriter, growing up as a Chinese-Korean-American, how she became a political activist and her position as a feminist fighting for women world-wide to have a voice.    A staunch Hillary Clinton supporter and devastated when Hillary lost the election, Krista Suh decided to use her other passion – performance art -to start a movement of women marching on Washington.    After remarks made by Donald Trump stating how being a celebrity he could do anything he wanted to a woman and get away with it even grabbing her…I think you know the missing word here.   Krista Suh wanted something big and dramatic to scream womens’ solidarity in a social movement to raise awareness of womens’ issues and advancing human rights by promoting dialogue in an innovative, in your face kind of way through political resistance via performance art – her specialty.    So, Krista started the Pussyhat Project.   She envisioned a sea of pink - a million women from all over the world – marching together on Washington all wearing pink had knitted, woven, crocheted, sewn – however any woman wanted to create it but for all of them to be wearing a shade of pink hand-made hat with pussy cat ears or as some women and some LBTGQ, etc.  chose to go full-on pink vajayjay hats but Krista got her dream come-true.   Overhead visuals did show a sea of pink in the crowd in the D.C. mall.    What started as an idea shared went viral and participants arrived from all parts of the globe to protest the Donald’s derogatory statements regardimg women turning to a protest of his election.    She brings to light the many ways in life people can make things happen by starting with a desire to do something then allow it to be don’t shut yourself down because what you want might seem impossible – believe and make it happen.   She talks about being shy but finding her voice and offers many exercises throughout the book on how to find not just your voice by learning to speak up, learning to say no when you want to instead of beating yourself up for saying yes to everything because you think it is expected, how to find your many creative skills and how to learn what they are even if you don’t already know and how to use them to be the change you want to see in the world.    Good book, I really enjoyed hearing her views and the things she has done in her life so far.   The exercises she offers are not only fun but thought provoking and you might find some new realizations about yourself and the skillset you have you might not even know about.   Well done, Krista Suh.