It’s hard to think of anything changing more quickly in our society right now than our understanding of gender. This episode is part of the TED Talks Daily summer book club, a series featuring talks and interviews to inspire your next great read. Elise and Elif discuss how fiction creates empathy and how to avoid "falling into the trap of tribalism," even when the world might push us that way. After the talk, stick around to hear a conversation between Elise and Elif about her new novel, "The Island of Missing Trees," an intergenerational story about forbidden love. In this passionate, personal talk, she reminds us that there are no binaries, in politics, emotions and our identities. And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism." A native of Turkey, she has experienced firsthand the devastation that a loss of diversity can bring - and she knows the revolutionary power of plurality in response to authoritarianism. "From isolationists, we will learn the need for global solidarity. "From populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy," says novelist Elif Shafak.
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