Tag: rebecca solnit

1) Emmy Hyche, “Corpse Logic” 

2) Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl 

3) Magda Romanska, “NecroOphelia: Death, femininity and the making of modern aesthetics”

5) Joshua Foer, “A Minor History of Useful Corpses”

6) Alice Notley, “Bobby (First Visit Back to the States”, Mysteries of Small Houses

7) Claudia Rankine, Citizen

8) Kathy Acker, “The Following Myth of Romantic Suffering Has to be Done Away With”

9) Claudia Rankine | Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

10) Rebecca Solnit, “A Rape a Minute, A Thousand Corpses a Year: Hate crimes in America—and elsewhere—add up to the world’s longest war”

Cassandra Among the Creeps

by Rebecca Solnit

Source: harpers.org

Making an injury visible and public is usually the first step in remedying it, and political change often follows culture, as what was long tolerated is seen to be intolerable, or what was overlooked becomes obvious. Which means that every conflict is in part a battle over the story we tell, or who tells and who is heard.

Rebecca Solnit, from “Hope is an embrace of the unknown” (via theclassicsreader)
Source: theclassicsreader