What do you stand for?
If you took your history lessons from the street names and the names of bridges and buildings, rivers and towns, you would believe men, mostly white Protestants, did nearly everything that ever mattered
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.
The daily news drip can make it difficult to recognize the immense scale of the president’s legal troubles
His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run
Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking about. … Every woman knows what I’m talking about
Feminism is now being weaponized for right-wing agendas. We must not allow that to happen
On Fighting Foundational Misogyny One Story at a Time
The 2016 US presidential election was so corrupted in so many ways, small and large, that there is no reason to respect its outcome
Violence against women is rampant, systemic, and all about control
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday to dismantle a slew of climate rules put in place by President Obama
The true impact of activism may not be felt for a generation. That alone is reason to fight, rather than surrender to despair