Hope in the Dark
As I researched for my book, I came across these awesome quotations from Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark that I wanted to share:
War is easy to abhor, but it takes a serious passion to unravel the tangles of financial manipulations and to understand the pain of sweatshop workers or displaced farmers. And maybe this is what heroism looks like nowadays: occasionally high-profile heroism in public but mostly just painstaking mastery of arcane policy, stubborn perseverance year after year for a cause, empathy with those who remain unseen, and outrage channeled into dedication.What's missing...is an ability to recognize a situation in which you are traveling and not arrived, in which you have cause both to celebrate and to fight, in which the world is always being made and is never finished.
A better world, yes; a perfect world, never.
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Arcane policy knowledge and dedication are necessary but not sufficient for heroism. What's missing isn't joy but rather a coherent critique of globalism.
As there are different forms and interpretations of feminism, there are different ways to be a hero.