Rebecca Solnit

1 month ago | meditationsinanemergency.com | Rebecca Solnit

— 9 min read The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don't want to take the blame. And one of the prerogatives of power is to be in charge of blame, and abusers routinely exercise that power to make their own acts someone else's fault.

2 months ago | meditationsinanemergency.com | Rebecca Solnit

I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really connected to anything else and nothing should be. This is why they're hacking away at the US government and international alliances and good relationships with everything and everyone from the European Union to Canada and Mexico to a whole lot of the American people. They think they can go it alone.

2 months ago | carrienewcomer.substack.com | Carrie Newcomer |Rebecca Solnit |Ross Gay

Inside the word "emergency" is "emerge"; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters."— Rebecca Solnit (Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power)“what happens if joy is not separate from pain? What if joy and pain are fundamentally tangled up with one another?

2 months ago | msn.com | Rebecca Solnit

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2 months ago | msn.com | Rebecca Solnit

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