Republicans wouldn't be trying so hard to prevent their political opponents from voting and mass protesting if they didn't work
"We really do want to put solidarity on the American agenda, as something that’s critical to getting us out of these intersecting crises but also as something that can be institutionalized." @lhh.bsky.social@astra.bsky.social talk SOLIDARITY with Electric Lit.
Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor discuss solidarity as a potent political movement in America and where we go from here
psst, just a little reminder that Monday is April, somehow??!? and on April 1st, nominations will be open for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize! for which ABSOLUTELY ANYONE can nominate a book, yes, that means you; yes, that means authors can nominate themselves; yes, yes, yes
I wish they’d gotten all the surviving cast and crew to weigh in because I am definitely here for the deep dive.
‘Audiences hated the ending. They wanted to know who the Thing was. But I don’t care. That’s how I wanted it’
“Solidarity is not equivalent to identity – it transcends your identity, or expands it. [It] is connecting across difference, building new alliances between people and then transforming the status quo.” @astra.bsky.social@lhh.bsky.social talk about their “galvanizing” new book.
The activists, who first met at Occupy Wall Street in 2011, talk about the limits of protest – and the power of connecting across difference to change the world
Some thoughts on strategy and scale in this second excerpt from Solidarity, this time in the Guardian's Long Reads: "Organising is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/m...
SOLIDARITY the book tour kicks off tomorrow. Catch us in your town if you can. Excited to be in conversation with all these amazing folks: Aziz Rana, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, Nikil Saval, Heather McGhee and more.
If you are worried about our fractious state of affairs, then do I have a book for you. SOLIDARITY publishes today and it's fierce and brilliant authors @lhh.bsky.social@astra.bsky.socialwww.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...
It’s a threat to business-as-usual.
Sure, send a giant parasol into space to combat climate change. What could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/c...
Interest in sun shields, once a fringe idea, has grown. Now, a team of scientists says it could launch a prototype within a few years.