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Quartz
February 25, 2018
Be careful riding the online trollercoaster; any slang you coin in internet comments could end up in the definitive record of the English language. “Mansplain” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary last month: “Of a man: to explain (something) needlessly, overbearingly, or condescendingly, esp.
San Francisco Examiner
February 25, 2018
Rebecca Solnit and Joan Halifax: Writer, historian and activist Solnit, whose books include “Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas,” and Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Halifax, a pioneer in the field of end-of-life care, discuss their work. [7:30 p.m., Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes St., S.F.]. I Think I'd Be Good atÃÂ ...
Daily Trojan Online
February 15, 2018
In feminist scholar Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, a book that reads as an almost prophetic examination of the Trump era, gendered violence is a focus of the work, as it analyzes how the erasure and dismissal of women's voices has been a quiet, key factor in perpetuating domestic abuse.
Houston Chronicle
January 25, 2018
As someone who has been reading Rebecca Solnit's work for the past 10 years and who has seen her speak several times, I knew what to expect when I found a seat in the wings of the lobby at the Menil Collection. True to form, she wandered. Most Popular. 1. Marianne Williamson asked white people toÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 17, 2018
One of the audiobooks I listen to is Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark. In it Solnit talks about our impatience for political change and how that impatience leads to despair. I'm moved by this idea. And yet, I can't stop wondering how we're supposed to maintain perspective when events of the world keepÃÂ ...
Hyperallergic
January 17, 2018
In a recent essay by Rebecca Solnit, published in the Guardian, titled If I Were a Man, she addressed this same deep frustration with the limits of the possible: “If I were a man … I didn't want to be someone else so much as I wanted, from time to time, to be treated as someone else, or left alone as I would beÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 12, 2018
Rebecca Solnit's essential new feminist text, The Mother of All Questions, interrogates the idea that women should have children at all. She talks about her desire to be “truly rabbinical” in the face of hostile, closed questions. Solnit says she has developed a gnomic response that turns the spotlight back onÃÂ ...
Bustle
January 10, 2018
In the 2008 essay "Men Explain Things to Me," writer Rebecca Solnit gave the quintessential example. While at a party in Aspen, Colorado, the host struck up a conversation about books. After she mentioned that she had written one about English photographer Eadward Muybridge, he interrupted her toÃÂ ...
Inc.com
January 5, 2018
Women now make up more than a fifth of members of parliaments around the world. Workplace and road safety in the U.S. has risen dramatically since our grandparents' time. Why is stirring up hope so urgently important now? Because as activist and author of Hope in the Dark Rebecca Solnit has argued,ÃÂ ...
Harvard Business Review
December 31, 1999
The objects we call books aren't the real books, observed contemporary American essayist Rebecca Solnit. They're the potential for one; the real book “exists fully only in the act of being read,” she writes. So too with leadership principles: They only really exist if employees are thinking about them, sayingÃÂ ...
Inc.com
December 31, 1999
Journalist Rebecca Solnit has a great reply to this understandable question. "Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes,"ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
The exchange sees a woman “thanking” a male blog commentator for “mansplaining” to her, and he responds asking if it was really “mansplaining”. The term is often misattributed to writer Rebecca Solnit and her book Men Explain Things to Me, though she never used the term in the eponymous essay.
The Guardian
December 3, 2017
The 11 biggest victories against Trump by the resistance. Rebecca Solnit. We are in the midst of a host of battles over the fate of the nation and the earth, and the outcome is in no small part up to us. We can win if we try. trump protest. 'It's too soon for despair, though not for grief.' Photograph: via ZUMAÂ ...
Irish Times
December 2, 2017
Rebecca Solnit is one of those slow-burning authors. She has been around for a long time but is suddenly found to be speaking to the moment, and thus arrives, a voice already full of wisdom. She is probably still best known for identifying the phenomenon known as “mansplaining”, though she did not ...
SLUG Magazine
November 30, 2017
Inspired by Rebecca Solnit's book Infinite City, which narrates the neighborhoods in San Francisco through firsthand accounts, Mapping SLC is a collaborative, continual autobiography of Utah. Reaching to cobwebbed corners of state history through writers, scholars, artists and community members, the ...
SFGate
November 27, 2017
Rebecca Solnit with Peter Coyote “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster.” 7 p.m. $5. Copperfield's ...
Bustle
November 20, 2017
Want to buy books for your loved ones this holiday season, but don't know where to start? Haymarket Books' holiday sale is perfect for the ...
New Statesman
November 14, 2017
For someone who makes their living from words, Rebecca Solnit is unusually interested in silence. The second essay in her new collection, The ...
The Guardian
November 10, 2017
Serendipity might well exist, for I opened Rebecca Solnit's collection of essays subtitled “further feminisms” at a moment that demanded what ...
The Guardian
November 8, 2017
'Whether or not we can do anything about last year's election, we can try to make sure we never again have one like it.' Photograph: Kena ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 27, 2017
It's a concept that's central to The Mother of All Questions, the new book by American writer Rebecca Solnit, whose growing legions of young ...
lareviewofbooks
October 24, 2017
Rebecca Solnit suggests that we should fill maps with fantasy — that we, the artists, should create or invite into our realities a mystery, ...
Bustle
October 24, 2017
Kindle copies of Naomi Klein's No Is Not Enough and Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me are $0.99 right now, and Kate Moore's The ...
HuffPost
October 24, 2017
In Rebecca Solnit's book, Paradise Built in Hell, she reveals that people often respond to calamity not with chaos, greed, and violence but with ...
Vox
October 24, 2017
Contributors include Rebecca Solnit, Carina Chocano, Jill Filipovic, Katha Pollitt, and Sarah Hollenbeck. I spoke with Strayed about how she ...
iNews
October 24, 2017
Silence and violence are the topics terrifically tackled by Rebecca Solnit in her excellent new essay collection. She describes it as completing a ...
The New Yorker
October 23, 2017
Ash and charred wood are all that remain of homes in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, California, after ...
Il Libraio
October 22, 2017
Nella raccolta di saggi "Gli uomini mi spiegano le cose", Rebecca Solnit riflette sul mansplaining, fenomeno a cui la stessa giornalista, scrittrice ...
Lifehacker
October 11, 2017
The term “mansplaining” is often credited as being created by the writer Rebecca Solnit, who defines it as “the intersection between ...
New York Times
October 10, 2017
... All Be Feminists,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and “The Mother of All Questions,” by Rebecca Solnit, make a powerful discussion pair.
HuffPost
October 3, 2017
In her book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit writes that part of activism ― maybe a big part of it ― involves embodying the values you're trying ...
The Guardian
August 26, 2017
Rebecca Solnit will be speaking at Southbank Centre's London Literature festival on 30 October. • Commenting on this piece? If you would like ...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
As we turn now to Rebecca Solnit. I'm Amy Goodman here with Juan Gonzalez. Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. We're going to ...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
If, as Rebecca Solnit wrote last week in the Guardian, the way toward a society that is less egregiously hostile to women will be paved by “a ...
KCET
September 28, 2017
As Rebecca Solnit has observed about San Francisco, gentrification — which is what we are talking about here — can lead to “a sense of beingÃÂ ...
Gadsden Times
September 25, 2017
I'm just about to finish one of the best books I've read in a long time — “Wanderlust: A History of Walking,” by Rebecca Solnit.
Charleston City Paper
September 20, 2017
In her now classic 2008 essay, "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit writes of having a man who did not know what he was talking aboutÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
September 20, 2017
It's a version of The Lord's Prayer, adapted by Rebecca Solnit, that opens, “Our mother who art underfoot.” I saw it; I read it, then I said to myself,ÃÂ ...
WIRED
September 15, 2017
She really showed up and did a three-song set, read Rebecca Solnit's reinterpretation of “Our Father,” and closed the night by dedicatingÃÂ ...
ChristianToday
September 14, 2017
Credited as 'adapted by Rebecca Solnit', the prayer is aimed at 'our mother who is underfoot', rather than a heavenly father, and seems to useÃÂ ...
bestofneworleans.com
September 11, 2017
That concept comes from Rebecca Solnit's book A Field Guide to Getting Lost, a collection of essays often associating a sense of place withÃÂ ...
WMOT
September 6, 2017
Where Patchett's story is a seamless blend of first-person and hard reporting, Rebecca Solnit's essay "Death by Gentrification: The Killing ofÃÂ ...
Deseret News
September 5, 2017
The idea came from Rebecca Solnit's “Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas,” a collection of maps with accompanying essays that describe theÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
August 29, 2017
In her book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit argues that emergencies provokeÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
August 28, 2017
As Rebecca Solnit argues in her 2009 book, “A Paradise Built in Hell,” disasters create a window into social desire and potential. We'reÃÂ ...
The Guardian
August 27, 2017
Rebecca Solnit: 'I didn't want to be the Stephen King of feminist ... By her own account, the writer Rebecca Solnit has never been an optimist.
The Guardian
August 26, 2017
Rebecca Solnit will be speaking at Southbank Centre's London Literature festival on 30 October. • Commenting on this piece? If you would likeÃÂ ...
IVN News
August 25, 2017
According to Harper's editor Rebecca Solnit: Anger is hostile to understanding. At its most implacable or extreme, it prevents comprehension ofÃÂ ...
ProWrestling.net
August 25, 2017
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit – I think you all may be tired of book recommendations at this point, but here's another one.
Bustle
August 24, 2017
Bush says: "Rebecca Solnit is something of a historian for feminist thinking, and so much of what she writes is like gospel to me. But whatÃÂ ...
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