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What makes a good activist? The ability to make yourself heard above the din? Or a quiet determination to change things for the better?

In a new series of Better Angels �鶹APP� the podcast for the activist spirit �鶹APP� Sarah Brown explores different types of campaigning styles, including introverts and extroverts.

Sarah, who is Chair of �鶹APP, started Better Angels in 2016. She said: �鶹APP�At �鶹APP we have always worked in a very outward-facing, very assertive way. A lot of earlier episodes of the podcast were about finding your voice to create change.

�鶹APP�But as I met different activists I realised there is more than one way to create change. It doesn�鶹APP�t suit everyone to have the same approach.

�鶹APP�The similarities between the styles is that there is a focus on the changes needed. The difference is the journey to get there.

�鶹APP�If you use your voice, you use the media, protests, sitting on platforms at events. If you�鶹APP�re an introvert, those are not tools you want to use.
But the single-minded focus on what you want to say and who needs to hear the message is the same.�鶹APP�

The first episode of the new series focuses on quiet activism, featuring some gentle voices whose powers of persuasion have marked them out as change-makers. Sarah�鶹APP�s guests are British activists Sarah Corbett, Claire Heuchan and Stuart Beveridge.

�鶹APP�It�鶹APP�s been really interesting talking to people who are introvert but are passionate about change,�鶹APP� said Sarah Brown. �鶹APP�I was interested to know what quieter ways of campaigning can do.�鶹APP�

Her first guest in the new episode is Sarah Corbett, a professional activist, author, speaker and founder of the . It is a social enterprise that combines craft and activism to engage people with social justice in a non-confrontational way.

She said it�鶹APP�s important that people �鶹APP�don�鶹APP�t just see activists as shouty, loud extroverts�鶹APP�.  Sarah added: �鶹APP�Craft is part of the activism toolkit �鶹APP� it is not to replace marches or petitions.

�鶹APP�I care deeply about injustice. A lot of introverts are also highly sensitive people so we are really good at empathy and compassion.�鶹APP�

Claire Heuchan is an award-winning feminist writer who  �鶹APP� writing on subjects such as race, power, identity and sexual politics.

She told Sarah Brown: �鶹APP�The whole purpose of the feminist movement is change �鶹APP� to build a world in which women and girls are liberated from all forms of oppression. If I didn�鶹APP�t believe that change was possible there would be no point in working towards it.�鶹APP�

Stuart Beveridge, who has been blind since birth, works for the  charity in Fife, Scotland. He talked to Sarah about how technology is transforming the lives of visually-impaired people and how working in partnerships with like-minded organisations can bring about change.

�鶹APP�Social media can be key �鶹APP� once it�鶹APP�s up there people can�鶹APP�t really ignore it because it�鶹APP�s in the public eye,�鶹APP� said Stuart. �鶹APP�Sometimes it can be just a small tweet �鶹APP� it just has to hit the right person and they take notice.�鶹APP�

The rest of this series of Better Angels will feature a noisy activism episode and four specials, including in-depth interviews with Sarah Corbett, Claire and Stuart.

Looking back over the three years of Better Angels, Sarah Brown said she has learned to appreciate other people�鶹APP�s styles and approaches.

�鶹APP�I�鶹APP�ve seen podcasts grow too so there are so many other voices to listen to,�鶹APP� she said. �鶹APP�Always learning from people will always impact what you do.�鶹APP�

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