What do we mean when we talk about agency?

In her essay about Jeanette Winterson’s novel The Stone Gods, Crystal Koo explores what it means for individuals to have agency in the face of overwhelming systemic and societal-level problems. She explores this fascinating novel - in which two characters find one another across three different space-time contexts - to consider whether personal love, as demonstrated by Billie and Spike, can be the sort of intervention that Winterson seems to suggest it can be.