The MarginalianGardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/
Morgan FletcherThis has been shared and shared here, and now I'm sharing it. I'm going to buy her new #book from my local bookseller, then lend it out. Maybe I'll buy a few copies.
“Something big I propose in the book,” she says, “is that the whole idea of the ascent of man, his separation from nature, his inevitable progress towards the supremacy of industrialised capitalism, towards this supreme version of himself, is a weird detour from how most people, throughout most of time, have thought about nature and our place in it.” The mistakenness of that detour might show itself in environmental destruction, or it might show itself in an epidemic of loneliness, or in the scourge of corporate rapacity, but, once the imagination has woken up to it, says Solnit, “the change is deep and profound”
‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate
It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights
Peter Hanecak“I often feel like a tortoise at a mayfly party,” she says, via video call from San Francisco. “People do not remember the past … [they] often seem to live in a perpetual present. And some find that reassuring, that nothing is ever going to change. Some find it despair-inducing, because nothing is ever going to change.”
‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate
It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights
Culture | The Guardian US‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/25/rebecca-solnit-slow-revolution-far-right-cannot-tolerate #RebeccaSolnit #Books #Culture #PoliticsBooks #UsPolitics #Society #Feminism #TheFarRight #Environment #Race #ClimateCrisis #ProtestUs
‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate
It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights
Wettach (WGW)Mittagspause mit @RebeccaSolnit und Blick auf die Universitätsbibliothek der @unituebingen - Solnit's "Thr Beginning Comes After The End" ist das LA Times "Most Anticipated Book of 2026" #amreading #RebeccaSolnit #uspol #Feminism #NativeRights
bsmall2> What the Mad Max franchise (which began only six years after the 1973 oil embargo) got right is that fossil fuel in its extremely uneven distribution throughout the world always seems scarce, and there's always violence over it. The climate movement is a peace movement in two ways.... https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/if-fossil-fuels-are-war-renewables-can-bring-peace/
#MadMax #ClimateMovement #RebeccaSolnit
#MadMax #ClimateMovement #RebeccaSolnit
If Fossil Fuels Are War, Renewables Can Bring Peace
On one side of the world the US and Israel are pursuing an ill-conceived attack on Iran that has hugely impacted the flow of fossil fuel in the region. This is already having a grim impact on daily life in many nations, jacking up the price of oil and gasoline,
Pamela Barroway – Biz EditorExhibit 2
#RebeccaSolnit's latest piece. Her Meditations in an Emergency newsletter is 💯worth a follow, and is NOT on Substack!
Today I Need to Say Something About (the Stupidity of) #Antisemitism
Today I Need to Say Something About (the Stupidity of) Antisemitism
Two stories erupted in the last twenty-four hours that have to do with antisemitism. One is deeply positive. It's a letter signed by 132 Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA rejecting the Trump Administration's definition of antisemitism while pointing out what's dangerous about this right-wing definition of antisemitism: it's an
Longreads"Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender." @RebeccaSolnit speaks with David Marchese for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/magazine/rebecca-solnit-interview.html
Anti. 🐘"It’s this idea that we don’t have to look for an individual, for a savior, for an Übermensch. I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-my-never-ending-quest-for-clarity/
Terminology, Clarity, and the Question of What Is the Left?
I often say that spoken and written are two different languages with their own grammar and their own difficulties and invitations. Anyone who's ever transcribed a conversation or an interview learns that most of us speak in phrases, rather than sentences, phrases whose intention is clarified by pauses, inflections, and
> Politeness is not really the problem. I think we got into this situation in part by a lot of people in the mainstream thinking it was more important to be polite than to call things by their true names. There’s a wonderful historian and scholar of nonviolence named George Lakey who says polarization is good. That’s when you have clarity. Sometimes people have to pick sides. You do not get authoritarians to behave better by being meek and gentle and polite. You get it by being strong.
#SolnitOnPoliteness #RebeccaSolnit #GeorgeLakey
#SolnitOnPoliteness #RebeccaSolnit #GeorgeLakey