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In late 1936 George Orwell, like so many young idealists from Europe and the USA, went off to fight fascism in Spain.…
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit (born 24 June, 1961) is an American writer, historian, and activist. She is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Whose Story Is This?, Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books; a trilogy of atlases of American cities, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award), and a memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence. She is a product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school.
Seeing cars with no human inside move through San Francisco’s streets is eerie enough as a pedestrian, but when I’m on my…
We discuss climate solutions and the need for broad involvement in the fight to avert climate catastrophe with writer and activist Rebecca…
From throwing soup against paintings, to blocking roads, to striking for the climate, to stopping private jets from taking off, activists worldwide…
You can take away a right through legal means, but it is harder to take away the belief in that right. The…
The role of art and beauty as forms of resistance
When men harm women, we obscure their role. Instead, we blame women for the injustice that happens to them
At the top there’s corruption, down below there’s dismantling and disarray. Americans are entering a period of immense danger
In so many cases rapists have help in the moment and forever after, and the help is often so powerful, broad, and deep—well, that’s why we call it rape culture
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation