Here she is in her lecture.ĬOEL: Why are we platforming misfits, heralding them as newly rich successes whilst they balance on creaking ladders with little chance of social mobility? I can't help usher them into this house if there's doors within it they can't open. But she also said they don't know how to take care of the misfits once they bring them in.
SANDERS: Michaela says creative fields like misfits - their creativity, the newness they bring. But also a misfit is someone who simply looks around the world and sees it in a way that's different. She defines herself and others like her as misfits.ĬOEL: A misfit is someone who either feels ostracized by society because they don't fit in to whatever ideals the society has established as normal. SANDERS: That lecture and now Michaela's book - they're both all about that - Michaela kind of feeling like an oddball in her industry, even as that industry was showering her with praise. What is it that I am supposed to say that makes this makes sense? Oh, you've never had a Black person or a person of color give this lecture. MICHAELA COEL: I was trying to understand why I had been asked to give the lecture. And it was a very big deal for Michaela to give that lecture.
It's the keynote speech of the Edinburgh TV Festival, this media event where people working in TV around the world meet and talk about the state of the industry. SAM SANDERS, BYLINE: Before Michaela Coel made "I May Destroy You," she got a very prestigious invitation in 2018 for her earlier television work, the MacTaggart Lecture. The show is up for nine Emmys this year, and now she has a book called "Misfits: A Personal Manifesto." NPR's Sam Sanders spoke with her on his show It's Been a Minute from NPR and asked what inspired a whole manifesto. Michaela Coel achieved critical acclaim last year for her show "I May Destroy You," which explored issues like sexual assault and consent.
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