Podcast appearances and mentions of Rebecca Solnit

The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit highlights how slow, consistent activism can bring lasting change. Rebecca joins us to talk about interconnection, possibility, the nature of change, hope, empathy and more with host Miwa Messer.  This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                     New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit Comfortable With Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion by Pema Chödrön Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit

Una guía sobre el arte de perderse, de Rebecca Solnit, es una antología de ensayos en los que la autora estadounidense explora desde diferentes perspectivas la idea de perderse. Ese perderse que pude significar tanto, como dejar atras quienes fuimos, enfrentarse a lo desconocido, adentrarse en la oscuridad o, de forma más literal, estar en un bosque sin saber qué dirección tomar para regresar. La narrativa está cargada de referencias culturales, historias atractivas, ideas filosóficas, cuestiones biográficas y una linda variedad de formas en las que se puede encontrar crítica cultura, política, historia y muchas frases que evocan lo profundo y lo eterno.

We're getting so close to our 200th episode, but first, we have a book club episode for you. In Episode 198, we're talking about Gen's pick—Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit.Show NotesThis book felt extremely relevant to everything happening in the world these days, like oof.Truly so many topics were covered in this book! The rise of Communism and the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, the Carboniferous Era, coal mining, rose production in Colombia, and actually so much more. What a ride.Rebecca Solnit, we are so impressed with the structuring of this book.You can read Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language," on the Orwell Foundation website and it is very much worth the read. Don't be surprised if Gen picks Nineteen Eighty-Four as a future book club read.If you follow us on Instagram, you may know that we've fallen down the romance rabbit hole, so we decided that our next episode would be all about the romance genre.After that, it's time for our 200th episode! We still can't believe it. Our next book club book is Jette's pick, and we're following the romance train still with In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde, which is a spin off of the extremely popular Windy City series. Other Books and Media MentionedThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Trotsky (2009)By George Orwell:Nineteen Eighty-FourAnimal FarmDown and Out in Paris and LondonHomage to CataloniaBy Rebecca Solnit:Men Explain Things to MeHope In the DarkA Field Guide to Getting LostThe Beginning Comes After the End

Good morning. After another tense night watching football in the pub, my friend reminded me of how different the experience is to when we were younger. How do you mean I asked. Well, we don't reek of smoke, he said. And I remembered what it used to be like. How after going to a gig, or a bar, everyone stank of someone else's smoke afterwards. And now we never do.It was twenty years ago this year that the Health Act passed, banning smoking in enclosed spaces… and today we take it for granted.Last month, almost under the radar, another law passed so that anyone born since January 2009 will never legally be able to buy tobacco products. Smoking will become rarer and rarer…but so gradually that we won't realise.We don't notice change as it's happening, it's absorbed into the new normal.If the morning news is immediate and dramatic, history is often incremental and invisible. It happens on the quiet.Until you stop to notice that it's hiding in plain sight. Or you measure it against a greater span than a news cycle. A life span, for example, a centurion like David Attenborough.Penicillin, discovered when Attenborough was two, has a reasonable claim to being the best invention since sliced bread… except that sliced bread was also invented in 1928.My uncle Dave, who died the other day, was the last of my mothers eleven siblings. One didn't survive into adulthood due to polio, a disease almost eradicated today. People no longer have 12 children like my grandparents, - the NHS, born when Attenborough was 22, introduced the contraceptive pill and family sizes fell.Then there's electrification or the mobile phone - when Attenborough was 50 … as well as, on the down side, the atom bomb and global warming.Just as we might wonder how our ancestors tolerated slavery or hanging maybe our descendants will wonder how we tolerated the industrial production of animals for food or tearing down rainforests. The American essayist Rebecca Solnit, who calls herself, in a winning phrase, an ‘ambient Buddhist,' says that it's not heroic leaders who change history but the seeds planted quietly by communities acting together… who may not live to see those seeds flower. Seeds of equality or justice or peace which, once planted, may seem to disappear. In her new book, The Beginning Comes After The End, Solnit calls these seeds ‘imaginal cells' which hold ‘the instructions for transformation'. Or as Jesus of Nazareth told his friends, ‘unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.'

In this episode of Sew & So, we're stepping into a powerful intersection of storytelling and sewing with filmmaker and artist Valerie Soe. Valerie is a fourth-generation Chinese American, born and raised in San Francisco, and like so many, her sewing journey started with a single machine—a 1970s Kenmore she still uses today. What began as a practical skill in high school, and later as a way to sew for her family, became something she would return to in a moment when it mattered most. As an award-winning filmmaker and professor of Asian American Studies, Valerie has built her career around telling stories that reflect identity, memory, and community—stories she didn't often see growing up. And in early 2020, when the world slowed down and uncertainty set in, she found herself both living and documenting one of those stories in real time. Through a simple call to action, the Auntie Sewing Squad came together—hundreds of volunteers sewing masks for people who needed them, at a time when supplies were scarce and fear was high. Valerie was part of that effort, sewing alongside others while also capturing the experience as a filmmaker. Her newest documentary, The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook, revisits that moment—what it felt like, what was created, and what it meant to come together in a time of crisis. Many of you may remember our earlier conversation with Kristina Wong. (Episode 75) Today, we return to that story through Valerie's lens, with a deeper look at the impact of that movement. This is a conversation about sewing as something more—more than a skill, more than a craft—but a way to connect, to respond, and to care for others when it matters most. (3:25) Valerie talks about her first sewing machine – a 1970's Kenmore – and the beginning of her sewing adventures (4:53) What first drew Valerie to film and telling stories? (5:34) How did she become involved with The Auntie Sewing Squad? (7:00) How did she decide that the first film needed to be made? (8:12) And the second film…why this one? (9:05) Valerie talks about Kristina Wong (11:14) Valerie was both film producer and Sewing Squad participant. How did this affect the film? (12:45) This film was made during the time when Asian Americans were in danger. What was this like for her? (14:00) What were the most unexpected and powerful moments for her in the film? (15:25) How did the Auntie Sewing Squad serve the Navajo Nation and what affect did this have? (16:48) Valerie talks about the tiny details of the film where sewing was a practical tool rooted in community care (18:05) What does Valerie hope people will take away from the film? (20:30) What's next for her and what's her dream? (21:25) She takes us behind the scenes and explains the mechanics of making an independent film. (23:17) Want to see the film? Go to The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook.com (23:36) Anything we didn't ask? (24:10) Find Valerie at ValerieSoe.com and let her know you heard her on this podcast! Be sure to subscribe to, review and rate this podcast on your favorite platform…and visit our website sewandsopodcast.com for more information about today's and all of our Guests.

Trädgårdsarbete var centralt i George Orwells och många författares liv. Selma Yousif Mesbah sticker ner händerna i jorden i jakt på ett hem. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.Förra sommaren åkte jag hem. För första gången på sjutton år satte jag fot i min gamla hemstad Varberg. Det har varit så lätt att undkomma det förflutna genom att undvika platserna där det har utspelats. Ser jag inte längre radhuslängan jag växte upp i känner jag inte heller den leda, det uppror eller den glädje jag kanske kände när jag bodde där. Min uppväxt får istället endast figurera i mina minnen, där kan den bli vad jag vill att den ska vara, utan att drabbas av det förflutnas strålning som platsen avger. Därmed blev min återkomst lite av ett antiklimax, jag konfronterades inte med min barndom på något sätt. Min hemstad var bara gator, hus, cykelvägar och så stränderna såklart. De underbara stränderna. Jag kom ihåg dem, men jag kände inte igen dem som en del av mitt liv, för de var inte längre det.Radhuslängan, som tidigare var ljusgul, var målad i olika nyanser av grå och trädgården, den fanns inte längre. När vi flyttade in i det nybyggda huset var trädgården bara en plätt med jord. Mina föräldrar sådde gräs och planterade en vacker avenbokshäck. Ett äppelträd och ett plommonträd som växte sig precis så höga att jag mot slutet av min tonår kunde hänga upp en hängmatta mellan dem. Det fanns en trio bärbuskar bestående av krusbär och svarta och röda vinbär. Timjan, kaprifol och i hörnet av trädgården fanns en kompost i trä. Ett par rosenbuskar som kom att klättra på pelarna upp mot balkongen, som skapade en vacker båge av väldoftande rosor, vars blekrosa och vita blomblad regnade ner på uppbrutna bitar av mörkgrå altaskiffer.Allt detta var nu borta. Stenarna, buskarna, träden, till och med häcken hade ryckts upp och ersatts med ett vitmålat träplank. Det hade byggts en altan som täckte halva trädgården och på den stod en loungegrupp i svart plast, resten var gräs. Inte en enda blomma fanns att finna. Inte ett bär, en frukt eller ört. Resten av längans tomter följde ungefär samma mall, med ett trädäck eller en altan, svarta utemöbler och så gräs. Kanske en studsmatta. Det som tidigare varit en prunkande plats av liv och skönhet tedde sig nu som helt död och jag frågade mig om detta är de nya idealen för gemene man att eftersträva, det gråa, det tomma, det svarta gjort av plast. Är detta vad den nya världsordningen inspirerar till? Är detta allt som den rikedom vi alla lär oss att sträva efter symboliserar? Tomhet, idel tomhet.Strindberg beklagar sig i skriften Pessimismen i den moderna trädgårdskonsten över hur trädgårdarna kring förra sekelskiftet förlorat sin prakt. Han undrar om det nya modet skapats av ett behov av självplågeri som låg i tidens anda, eller om besattheten av den intetsägande plantan Palettblad upprättats av blomhatare. Kanske är det bara han som blivit gammal. Som ser tillbaka på stockrosorna från sin ungdoms trädgård med en nostalgisk blick som bara den åldrande som motstår sig förändring kan göra. Jag har också blivit äldre, men jag har svårt att tro att det är en romantisering av det förgångna som gör att jag nästan fysiskt reagerar på tomrummet som uppstått i det levandes ställe. Vem kan på riktigt säga att hon föredrar ingenting framför någonting? Det döda framför det levande. Att kunna gå barfota ut direkt på gräset, plocka sig några bär till frukosten, några plommon att njuta i hängmattan, några rosor att dofta på, ta in i små vaser och pryda huset med. Betrakta alla djur som lockas till trädgården, fjärilar, fåglar, humlor och bin, en liten igelkott som flyttar in bakom komposten och tittar fram ibland. Den ilar genom trädgården med sin vankelmodiga gångstil. Ingenting av detta går att uppleva med ett plank och en regntålig soffgrupp. De är döda ting och kanske påminner de mig, precis som de förhatliga palettbladen påminde Strindberg, om vårt och hela mänsklighetens gradvisa förfall. Men i en trädgård finns ingen död, där förnyas allting, skapar om sig självt, döden förutsätter livet, och i det ligger ett hopp, en framtid som ständigt vecklar ut sig som rosenblad om sommaren. En evig ungdom.En hoppets trädgård kan vi finna på den engelska landsbygden, där författaren George Orwell, mest känd för dystopin ”1984” och satiren ”Djurfarmen”, levde ett stilla liv på ett klassiskt engelskt torp. Förutom skrivandet var trädgårdsarbete, i synnerhet grönsaksodling, det han ansåg som det viktigaste i livet. Han var en slags konservativ anarkist, som längtade efter de små förindustriella engelska byarna, med sina små trädgårdar, där alla kände alla. Någon sa om honom att han var så mycket av en kommunist att han aldrig kunde kalla sig det, eftersom kommunisterna själva inte praktiserade kommunism. Att skapa en trädgård enbart för nytta var en fälla en socialistisk lagd person lätt kunde hamna i, därför var det för honom lika viktigt att odla skönhet och skapa en vacker trädgård. Han planterade några rosenbuskar som blommar än idag och som Rebecca Solnit förundras över, när hon besöker hans trädgård. I boken ”Orwell's roses” undersöker hon en mindre känd del av den framgångsrika författarens liv; hans djupa intresse och kärlek för naturen och hur hans trädgårdsarbete på ett sätt var en förutsättning för hans skrivande. Det var ett konkret världsförbättrande att ägna sig åt med handgripligt arbete, som gav synliga resultat, till skillnad från det abstrakta och helt och hållet mentala skrivandet, vars effekter är svårare att registrera.Men att odla sin egen trädgård påminner på flera sätt om att sitta och skriva på en roman. Det är båda praktiker som ställer sig lite utanför tiden, som skapar ett eget rum där vissa specifika förutsättningar råder, en alternativ verklighet. Som vänder sig bortåt, inåt och mot evigheten samtidigt. Det är kanske i jakten på det eviga livet som den skrivande trädgårdsmästaren finner en komplett balans mellan det odödliga ordet och det ständigt återkommande livet i en trädgård. Skrivandet är en mental ventil, medan grävandet i trädgårdslandet en organisk process som befäster oss som en del av naturens kretslopp. Vi blir dubbelt odödliga, både som ande och som kropp. En livförsäkring.Men samtidigt blir vi mer levande i detta liv, när vi inte bara utvecklar eller uppmuntrar en sida av våra personer, vår märkliga existens som medvetna däggdjur, utan omfamnar helheten. Ett praktexempel på att man inte måste välja, vi kan leva som avancerade tänkande varelser, och som en del av jorden, samtidigt. Till och med Strindberg insåg att det var lönlöst att endast bittert beklaga sin samtids oestetiska trädgårdar i skrift, och försökte odla så mycket han bara kunde när tillfälle gavs. Kanske i ett försök att återskapa ungdomens trädgård, och äntligen få komma hem. Selma Yousif Mesbahskribent och skrivpedagogLitteraturBlomstermålningar och djurstycken - August Strindberg, Albert Bonnier förlag 1888Orwell's roses - Rebecca Solnit, Viking 2021

“One of the greatest cures for despair and depression is to do something, and to do something with the people who care,” says Rebecca Solnit. In this episode, Kelly talks with Rebecca about hope, backlash, political memory, and why history can help us understand our own power. Their conversation explores feminism, climate grief, authoritarianism, misogyny, interdependence, and why the right's push to roll back hard-won freedoms is also a reaction to how much movements have already changed the world. Music: Son Monarcas, David Celeste & Sarah, the Illstumentalist You can find a transcript and show notes (including links to resources) here: truthout.org/series/movement-memos/ If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter

In Episode 197, we're talking about M Train by Patti Smith, one of our forever favourite artists. This year we're making an extra effort to crush our TBRs and reading books that we both already own or have been meaning to read forever, and of course we both have more Patti Smith to read!Show Notes We loved this book, obviously, but we raged against the deckled edges the entire time.Patti Smith is living the life we both want, so we're going to figure out how to do this, too.If you haven't already, definitely read Just Kids, Patti Smith's book about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe when they were in their twenties living in New York. And then listen to Episode 159!Patti Smith visits a few cemeteries and we were reminded of our episode about Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez. Our next episode is a book club episode and we'll be talking about Gen's pick, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit.Other Books & Authors MentionedHaruki Murakami Annihilation by Jeff VandermeerThe Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

In The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change—the sequel to Solnit's enduring bestseller, Hope in the Dark—the climate and human rights activist surveys the breadth and scale of the social, political, scientific, and cultural change that has happened since 1960. In conversation with Bina Venkataraman, an executive leader, journalist, science and innovation policy strategist, and the author of The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age. This program was held on March 25, 2026 in partnership with Politics and Prose. Watch on YouTube.

From Iran to Lebanon, to Israel and the occupied West Bank, the Middle East is truly in flames. In Lebanon, Israel continues to pound Hezbollah in the south, despite a so-called ceasefire and ongoing talks with the Lebanese government. Meantime, Israeli settlers are ramping up their violence against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, often with the security forces looking on, and even participating. Inside Israel, many Israelis support all this war, especially since October 7th. But not all, one key voice of resistance belongs to 86-year-old Colette Avital. She is a former Israeli diplomat, Knesset member and Holocaust survivor. She joins the show from Tel Aviv.   Also on today's show: CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir; author Rebecca Solnit; House Representatives Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Teresa Leger (D-NM)    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump's terrible week started Sunday when he attacked the Pope and then presented himself in an AI image as Jesus Christ; he then took control of the Strait of Hormuz, making sure that oil and gas prices continue to rise; and then Victor Orbán, Trump's MAGA ally in Hungary, lost his election to Peter Magyar – Harold Meyerson comments.Also: It's been only a couple of weeks since the No Kings 3 protests, but we can see now how protest and resistance are changing in America: that one it wasn't just bigger than the previous No Kings. It was different: Deeper and more connected. Rebecca Solnit argues that to understand resistance and change today, we need a much longer perspective than a couple of years. Her new book is The Beginning Comes After the End.Plus: Minneapolis made history with its mobilization against ICE. But what about the rest of the state, where the immigrant population has been growing for a couple of decades? What kind of resistance has developed there? Emma Janssen went to small town Minnesota to find out. She's a writing fellow at The American Prospect.

In 2008 schreef Rebecca Solnit het essay 'Men Explain Things to Me', dat meteen viraal ging en een gevoelige snaar raakte. De tekst begint met een herkenbare anekdote over een 'mansplainende' man. Maar meer nog dan over mannen die hun alwetende autoriteit niet in vraag stellen, heeft Solnit het over vrouwen die monddood gemaakt worden of niet geloofd worden. Ook niet als het over verkrachting of mishandeling gaat. Jozefien Van Beek herlas de tekst, die in 2014 in boekvorm verscheen.

It's been only a couple of weeks since the No Kings 3 protests, but we can see now how protest and resistance are changing in America: that one it wasn't just bigger than the previous No Kings. It was different: Deeper and more connected. Rebecca Solnit argues that to understand resistance and change today, we need a much longer perspective than a couple of years. Her new book is The Beginning Comes After the End. Also: Minneapolis made history with its mobilization against ICE. But what about the rest of the state, where the immigrant population has been growing for a couple of decades? What kind of resistance has developed there? Emma Janssen went to small town Minnesota to find out. She's a writing fellow at The American Prospect.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's been only a couple of weeks since the No Kings 3 protests, but we can see now how protest and resistance are changing in America: that one it wasn't just bigger than the previous No Kings. It was different: Deeper and more connected. Rebecca Solnit argues that to understand resistance and change today, we need a much longer perspective than a couple of years. Her new book is The Beginning Comes After the End.Also: Minneapolis made history with its mobilization against ICE. But what about the rest of the state, where the immigrant population has been growing for a couple of decades? What kind of resistance has developed there? Emma Janssen went to small town Minnesota to find out. She's a writing fellow at The American Prospect.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For Episode 196, we have another instalment in our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series with Slewfoot by Brom. This might be our most Bookstagram Made Me that we've ever done, because this book has been everywhere! Since we love all things witches, you know we had to read it.Show NotesWe loved Abitha and Samson and support all their witchery.Brom is also an artist and full colour paintings are included in Slewfoot, which was especially helpful for picturing Forest, Sky, and Creek with their strange child faces in the mouths of animals.Brom has done film concept art for Galaxy Quest (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Scooby Doo (2002), and Van Helsing (2004). He has never taken any formal art classes.In an effort to crush our TBR, we're reading books we both have on our shelves, and so for our next episode we'll be talking about M Train by Patti Smith.Don't forget to read along with our book club book, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit, which we'll be talking about in early May.

In Episode 195, we're officially wrapping up our 2025 reading goals and chatting about what we've been up to the last three months. (Surviving, mostly!) Lots of books are being read and writing plans are cooking! The real new year starts in spring anyway.Show NotesJette is absolutely crushing her reading goals! And we both may need to update some of our Storygraph goals for 2026 because we're way ahead already.We visited Hopeless Romantic and the Hopeless Romantic/Little Ghosts crossover store at Union Station in the last few months. If you're in Toronto, we definitely recommend checking them out! It turns out horror and romance are a perfect pair.Since we have a Romance episode coming up at the end of May, we tried to curb our romance talk, but we will be doing a deep dive soon enough!In our next episode, we'll be talking about Slewfoot by Brom as part of our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series, since we've been seing it everywhere!After that, we're attempting to tackle our TBRs and reading M Train by Patti Smith, which we both have physical copies of. That episode will be out April 29.And don't forget to read along with our current book club, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit.Books & Authors MentionedThe Windy City Series by Liz TomfordeElsie SilverA Five Letter Word for Love by Amy JamesHalf His Age by Jennette McCurdyA Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. JamesThis Is a Safe Space by Lucinda BerryCrushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age by Sophie Ansari, Nava Kavelin, and Penn BadgleyRebel Blue Ranch Series by Lyla SageSoul Searching by Lyla SagePlaying for Keeps series by Becka MackWhen We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice by Ilise S. CarterWells Ranch Series by Bailey HannahSilver Pines Ranch Series by Paisley HopeAll the Missing Pieces by Catherine CowlesAnderson in Bloom by Jennifer DuganPassing by Nella LarsonThe Creative Act by Rick Rubin The Fountain by Casey ScieszkaSpoiled Milk by Avery CurranThe Changeling by Victor LaValleThe Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham JonesThis is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneGame Changers Series by Rachel ReidProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonWylding Hall by Elizabeth HandMy Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

00:08 Rebecca Solnit, just out with The Beginning Comes After the End. She also has a newsletter called “Meditations in an Emergency” The post Rebecca Solnit on Hope appeared first on KPFA.

Episode 353 The world might feel dark right now, but life is actually getting better, rapidly. From the rise of feminism and antiracism to environmental movements and shifting understandings of gender, the Western world looks nothing like it did 75 years ago.  Yet despite so many historic victories for rights and ideas in recent times, it often feels like we're living in dark times - with progress that's stalling or going backwards. In her new book, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit explores how for decades social movements reshaped the world in ways we often fail to notice. Solnit argues that we are witnessing nothing less than the slow dismantling of an old worldview. And it's time we pay attention.  Rowan Hooper speaks to Solnit about the power of a good story, our growing understanding of the interconnectedness of nature and humanity - and why recognising progress may be essential to shaping the future. To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hope! What is it good for? (Absolutely every'thin). We ain't doing much about the climate crisis without it. Movements are founded on it, and most campaigns are about wanting us to feel it. Which is exhilarating for those who feel it most urgently - but what about everyone else? The good news is it turns out there are lots of different ways to have climate hope, even ones that might not look like it. Raising kids in the age of climate breakdown; doing a strange little climate podcast; even being a mopey wee doomer: this episode, we learn about how all these things are types of hope. Joining me on this episode is researcher Pancho Lewis, who's got a brilliant paper all about the many different types of climate hope there are. We talk about how politics is all about the feels, why being a Man U fan has tested Pancho's hope reserves no end - and how to truly have hope in the dark. All that, and a bit of Terry Pratchett too. (last minute edit: The term 'slow hope' was coined by Christof Mauch. Forgot to owl that)Let me know your thoughts on the show - hello@yourbrainonclimate.com. Please rate, review and subscribe, and share the show on socials. And do consider chucking this humble indie podcaster a few quid at www.patreon.com/yourbrainonclimate. Owl noises = references: 13:33: My micro chat with Geoff Beattie about optimism bias. 16.38: Pancho's paper about fluid hope. 34.21: Over to Wiki to explain collective effervescence.40.17: Jonathan Lear's book about radical hope. 45:20: Mathias Thaler's paper about eco-miserablism. 45.30: an owl is necessary to explain the Dark Mountain Collective. 50.46: Andreas Malm hates doomsters: see his book. 57:02: Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark. If you read nothing else, etc. The show is hosted and produced by me, Dave Powell. You can follow the show on instagram @yourbrainonclimate, and I occasionally put up a Substack. YBOC theme music and iterations thereof, by me. Thanks as always to Ruth Everett for the voices. Show logo by Arthur Stovell at https://mondial-studio.com/.   

In this first episode of the 2026 Beyond the Clock (BTC) season, Anna and Ash are joined by Nikiko Masumoto, this year's BTC Resident Artist, farmer, and memory keeper who invites us to explore memory as a living practice. In this episode, we reflect on the quiet rituals (personal and public) that carry culture forward and how, across rural communities, artists and cultural workers are tending something essential: memory and imagination.Inspired by Rebecca Solnit's idea that hope is grounded in memory, this conversation considers how remembering can guide us through uncertain times. When artists act as memory keepers, they are also operating as futurists that hold complexity, honor ancestral wisdom, and open space for imagination, especially in the midst of grief or rupture. Nikiko invites us to remember that memories are not simply stories that preserve the past; they are recipes for futures we are still learning how to make.BTC Season 1 Album: https://www.publictransformation.org/beyond-the-clock-albumMasumoto Family Farms: https://www.masumoto.com/

Rebecca Solnit, il suo nuovo libro, i commenti a una sua intervista uscita per La Stampa. Disagio maschile sui social, qualche considerazione su come comportarsi di fronte a uscite infelici e dieci proposte di letture per imparare come rispondere a determinate obiezioni. La parola della settimana è friendzonare. - Intervista a Solnit- Libro di Minello- Libro di Solnit- Newsletter di Pietro Izzo, Patrilineare- Friendzonare sul sito della Crusca Le dieci letture proposte:1 - Edwige Pezzulli, Nastassja Cipriani, Oltre Marie. Prospettive di genere nella scienza2 - Donata Columbro, Perché contare i femminicidi è un atto politico3 - Lorenzo Gasparrini, Filosofia: maschile singolare. Un problema di genere in filosofia4 - Emanuela Griglié, Guido Romeo, Per soli uomini. Il maschilismo dei dati, dalla ricerca scientifica al design5 - Graziella Priulla, Parole tossiche. Cronache di ordinario sessismo6 - Martina Ardizzi, L'algoritmo bipede7 - Daniela Brogi, Lo spazio delle donne8 - Vera Gheno, Femminili singolari. Il femminismo è nelle parole9 - Victoire Tuaillon, Fuori le palle. Privilegi e trappole della mascolinità10 - Chiara Saraceno, La famiglia naturale non esiste ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Il link per abbonarti al Post e ascoltare la puntata per intero⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on the Paramis (Particularly Dana and Sila) as essential capacities for awakening as well as relating skillfully to oneself and thw world (AKA 'This Life') This talk references the song 'Go Easy Kid" by Monica Martin, Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit and Am I Helping, Fixing or Serving? by Rachel Naomi Remen

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on the Paramis (Particularly Dana and Sila) as essential capacities for awakening as well as relating skillfully to oneself and thw world (AKA 'This Life') This talk references the song 'Go Easy Kid" by Monica Martin, Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit and Am I Helping, Fixing or Serving? by Rachel Naomi Remen

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on the Paramis (Particularly Dana and Sila) as essential capacities for awakening as well as relating skillfully to oneself and thw world (AKA 'This Life') This talk references the song 'Go Easy Kid" by Monica Martin, Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit and Am I Helping, Fixing or Serving? by Rachel Naomi Remen

Farnaz Fatemi talked with Diana Whitney about her maximalist, long armed book, Girl Trouble, a book full with exploration of girlhood, secrets, trauma and also female power. References in the show: Diana's essay in Longreads:  The Killer Who Spared My MotherAriel Levy's reporting on the Steubenville rape case: Trial by TwitterJeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich - Netflix documentary featuring voices of survivorsQuote by Rebecca Solnit comes from her incisive essay “Cassandra Among the Creeps” "Sexual assault, like torture, is an attack on a victim's right to bodily integrity, to self-determination and -expression. It's annihilatory, silencing."Diana Whitney is a queer writer and educator embracing a fierce belief in the power of poetry as a means of connection to self and others. She is the editor of the bestselling anthology You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, winner of the Claudia Lewis Award, and the author of three full-length poetry books, Wanting It, Dark Beds, and Girl Trouble. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other outlets. An advocate for survivors of sexual violence in her Vermont hometown and beyond, Diana works as a developmental editor and a community organizer for a rural LGBTQ+ nonprofit.

The writer and activist on how political change happens and taking the long view. Thoughts? Email us at theinterview@nytimes.com Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@TheInterviewPodcast For transcripts and more, visit: nytimes.com/theinterview Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The writer and activist on how political change happens and taking the long view. Thoughts? Email us at theinterview@nytimes.com Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@TheInterviewPodcast For transcripts and more, visit: nytimes.com/theinterview Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In Episode 193, we're talking about our latest book club selection—it's Jette's pick, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. There's so much going on in this book in the best possible way and we're ready to go read everything Tokarczuk has ever written.Show NotesOlga Tokarczuk has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Nobel Prize for Literature.We would also like to live in the woods and study astrology and translate Blake and attend the Mushroom Pickers society ball.Shout out to St. Hubert chicken. IYKYK.In our next episode, we'll be reading the graphic novel Mamo by Sas Milledge, who also illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of The Raven Boys.Our next book club book is Gen's pick, and we'll be reading Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit. We'll be talking about it on May 11.Books by Olga TokarczukMr. Distinctive House of Day, House of NightThe EmpusiumFlightsThe Books of Jacob

This session of The Measure of Our Humanity brings together Roshi Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit, and Christiana Figueres to reflect on courage, interconnection, and moral responsibility amid social and ecological rupture. Rebecca Solnit offers a passionate and lucid articulation of our moment as a struggle between an ideology of isolation and a shift back into the cosmology of interconnection. Source

Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with The Economist's Gregg Carlstrom, historian Arash Azizi, foreign policy expert Barbara Slavin and international human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan about the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran and what may come nextWriter and activist Rebecca Solnit reflects on what history can reveal about our turbulent times today, and why what looks like collapse may also be the messy birth of something newOur monthly challenge That's Puzzling! returns with actor and comedian Shaun Majumder, and Melfort, Sask. listener Susan Plant

There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people's thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible.What leaps out from the history of the past hundred years is its utter unpredictability. - Howard Zinn Rebecca Solnit's blog + newsletter: https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/Rebecca Solnit's Books: https://www.rebeccasolnit.net/books.htmlDonate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief FundRead Julie's Medium Blog.Support JULIE (and the show!)Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.comTune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"We're all losers until we win." - Astra Taylor "Change itself becomes invisible when your timeframe is shorter than that change and the short term view breeds defeatism and despair... The short term view breeds incomprehension and ineffectuality." - Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit's blog + newsletter: https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/Rebecca Solnit's Books: https://www.rebeccasolnit.net/books.htmlDonate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief FundRead Julie's Medium Blog.Support JULIE (and the show!)Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.comTune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK. The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do you deal with the emotional toll of living in a time of dissolution? Social scientists use the term "polycrisis" to describe the kind of cascading, overlapping failures that can lead to systemic collapse, and it's hard not to see the symptoms of a dying world order in events unfolding around us.  But maybe what we're witnessing is actually grounds for hope. In a forthcoming book "The Beginning Comes After the End," writer and activist Rebecca Solnit makes the case that something is dying, all right — because something better is being born. A rising worldview that embraces antiracism, feminism, environmental thinking, Indigenous and non-Western ideas, and a vision of a more interconnected, compassionate world.  Solnit is an engaged writer and intellectual in the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich, Susan Sontag and George Orwell. Her new book picks up where her earlier bestseller “Hope in the Dark”  left off — with an argument against despair and historical amnesia. In this conversation, we explore the extraordinary scale of progressive social, political, scientific and cultural change over the past century, the roots of Solnit's stance of “pragmatic, embodied hope,” her thoughts on “moral wonder, “ and her years in San Francisco's underground punk rock scene.  She also tells us what she'd put in our own wonder cabinet: an AIDS Memorial Quilt square sewn by Rosa Parks.  — To The Best Of Our Knowledge — Tending a wartime garden: what Orwell's fascination with roses tells us about the human need for beauty  Rebecca Solnit's newsletter  Pre-order “The Beginning Comes After the End," due out March 3, 2026.  —00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:00 A Land Back Ceremony 00:08:05 Progress in Disguise 00:18:35 Hope and Interconnection 00:29:45 Defiant Hope—Wonder Cabinet is hosted by Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson.Find out more about the show at wondercabinetproductions.com, where you can subscribe to the podcast and our newsletter.  Wonder Cabinet is hosted by Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson. Find out more about the show at https://wondercabinetproductions.com, where you can subscribe to the podcast and our newsletter.

There is a well-known cognitive phenomenon that we are all susceptible to, and even more so when we're stressed. And we're all at least a little stressed and overwhelmed right now.The illusory truth effect catches us when we repeatedly hear statements and begin to assume they are true through repetition and familiarity. Things feel true, even if they couldn't be further from it. Research has shown that sheer repetition can even override facts when we know better.Naming–systems, feelings, what we're witnessing, what's missing, what's wrong–is a powerful antidote to the illusory truth effect. Naming forces us to slow down. It interrupts the repetition. We can't meaningfully talk about integrity, values, courage, or innovation if we refuse to look directly at what is.My guest today reminds us that we can't disrupt what we can't name. And we can't heal what stays vague.Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning author and activist. As a cultural critic, she writes and speaks frequently about gender norms, social justice, free speech, sexualized violence, politics, and technology. The former Executive Director of The Representation Project and Director and co-founder of the Women's Media Center Speech Project, she has long been committed to expanding women's civic and political participation.Her most recent book, All We Want is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy, has been called “a potent rallying cry for a beleaguered feminist movement.”  In it, she challenges dearly held beliefs about gender and equality today, drawing clear lines between the dynamics of intimate inequality and global anti-feminist, anti-democratic backlash and machofascism.Content warning: Discussion of details of the video footage leading up to Renee Good's murder, less-detailed discussion of sexual and gender-based violence and harassmentListen to the full episode to hear:Why we need to name systems clearly and specifically in order to challenge themHow male supremacy encompasses concepts of sexism, misogyny, and patriarchy and frames them as part of a larger hierarchical systemHow we're witnessing DARVO play out at scale in our government and media, as well as in personal interactionsHow deepfakes use the pervasive threat of sexual violence against women to dehumanize and enforce subjugationHow women play roles in passing on and enforcing male supremacyHow “the boy crisis” reinforces norms of masculinity at the expense of girls and womenWhy big tent politics that asks everyone but cis, straight men to give up fundamental rights cannot be a yardstick of successLearn more about Soraya Chemaly:WebsiteInstagram: @sorayachemalyAll We Want is Everything: How We Dismantle Male SupremacySubscribe to UnmannedLearn more about Rebecca:rebeccaching.comWork With RebeccaThe Unburdened Leader on SubstackSign up for the weekly Unburdened Leader EmailResources:Dechêne, A., Stahl, C., Hansen, J., & Wänke, M.. The Truth About the Truth: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Truth Effect. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(2), 238-257Pennycook, G., Cannon, T. D., & Rand, D. G. (2018). Prior exposure increases perceived accuracy of fake news. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(12), 1865–1880Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel KahnemanFazio, L. K., Brashier, N. M., Payne, B. K., & Marsh, E. J. (2015). Knowledge does not protect against illusory truth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(5), 993–1002.EP 96: Rage to Action: The Leading Power of Women's Anger with Soraya ChemalyEP 117: Rethinking Resilience: Moving from Bouncing Back to Relational Resilience with Soraya ChemalyJennifer Joy Freyd, PhD.What is DARVO ? | Jennifer Joy Freyd, PhD.11. Boy Crisis Asides and the Invisible People and Power Living in Them | UnmannedAfterlives, Abdulrazak GurnahRadiohead - CreepI'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years AfterDon't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightBlondieThe Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change, Rebecca Solnit

“The scariest place you can be is believing nothing can be done, because something can always be done.” Dutch on Tiktok"Cause and effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension." Rebecca Solnit on Substack Ben Sheehan's Substack PBS Civics Made EasyHuffington Post on what we can do now. Know your rights:Defend yourself against ICE raidsICE in your area. How allies can help against ICE raidsRESOURCES: The House Democrats ICE oversight.American Immigration Council on Student HarmThe Conversation on ICE impact on student Trauma The UN "ending world hunger costs less than 1% of military spending"Cost to end vs not end homelessnessICE isn't arresting criminalsThe American Immigration Council on Mass Deportation Read episode scripts on Julie's Medium Blog.SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!)DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund AND THE Sudan Relief FundGET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.comTUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBESUBSCRIBE FOR BONUS CONTENT ON PATREON.The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Where do we go from here?Where are the leaders?Why does it feel like no one is doing anything?In this solo episode of The Outdoor Minimalist Podcast, we work to dismantle one of the most persistent myths about resistance: that it only looks one way — loud, visible, risky, and centered on a single kind of leader.Drawing on history, journalism, and movement research, this episode explores why successful resistance movements don't rely on heroes or front lines alone. They rely on ecosystems. Networks of people taking on different roles at different times, based on capacity, skill, and sustainability.Meg situates this conversation specifically within outdoor spaces and the outdoor industry, where leadership and power have historically been framed through a narrow, often white lens. By examining who has always been forced to resist, and who has often had the privilege not to, this episode challenges listeners to reconsider where leadership already exists, and what real allyship actually requires.Meg unpacks why neutrality can be dangerous, how “malignant normality” takes hold, and why resistance must include collective care if it's going to last.Finally, this episode offers a framework for understanding the many roles that show up in movements that actually work, including:- Frontlines- Organizers - Caregivers - Storytellers- Educators- Builders- SupportersAnd invites listeners to identify where they can contribute honestly and sustainably.Because resistance isn't a sprint.It's not even a marathon.It's a relay, and everyone has a role.Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/outdoor.minimalist.book/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theoutdoorminimalist.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee: ⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/outdoorminimalist⁠⁠⁠Listener Survey: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/jd8UCN2LL3AQst976⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Recommended Books on Resistance & Social Movements- Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan — Why Civil Resistance Works (2011)- Gene Sharp — The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973)- Sarah Jaffe — Necessary Trouble (2016)- Judith Butler — Frames of War (2009)- Peter Kropotkin — Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution (1902)- Umberto Eco — How to Spot a Fascist (2020)- Timothy Snyder — On Tyranny (2017)- Saul D. Alinsky — Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971)- bell hooks — Feminism Is for Everybody (2000)- Audre Lorde — Sister Outsider (1984)- If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance, edited by Angela Y. Davis (1971)- Ellen Jones — Outrage (2025)- Leah Thomas — Intersectional Environmentalist (2022)- Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò — Elite Capture (2022)- Rebecca Solnit — Hope in the Dark (2004)- Rebecca Solnit — A Paradise Built in Hell (2009)- Sara Ahmed — The Feminist Killjoy Handbook (2023)- Omkari L. Williams — Micro Activism (2023)- adrienne maree brown — Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (2019)- Arlie Russell Hochschild — Strangers in Their Own Land (2016)- Maria Ressa — How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future (2022)- Guy B. Johnson & James A. Dombrowski — The Highlander Folk School- Charles Tilly — Social Movements, 1768–2004Free Online ResourcesInternational Center on Nonviolent Conflict — Methods of Nonviolent Actionhttps://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/ Stanford Mapping Militancy Project — Leadership & Movement Researchhttps://mappingmilitants.org/Kimberlé Crenshaw — Intersectionality essays & TED Talkhttps://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionalityIf you're new to this topic, Rebecca Solnit and Sarah Jaffe are great starting points.

This month we talk with Roberto Ordenana, CEO of the GLBT Historical Society, and Gerard Koskovich, one of the founding members of the GLBT Historical Society. As the federal administration continues its efforts to erase us, the GLBT Historical Society is doubling down to ensure we remain visible.  We'll also talk with David Robinson about activism in today's challenging times. David was a member of ACTUP and knows how to fight back. David Robinson Learn More GLBT Historical Society GLBT Museum Gerard Koskovich Indivisible.org Tell Congress to Rein in ICE NOW! Email your Senators and Representative via Indivisible What’s the Plan? with Ezra & Leah Every Thursday noon–1pm (Pacific):  weekly zoom about the latest developments, threats, strategies, & actions to take Keziah Weir, “Rebecca Solnit on MAGA Wives, Protest Votes, and the Fate of the American Experiment” (Nov. 1, 2024) Debra Rienstra, “A Vote is Not a Valentine-Or a Virtue Test” — inspired by Rebecca Solnit on electoral politics (May 4, 2024) Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement (1987) Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s Climate Action Venn Diagram About The Regular Voices Finn Deerhart Raif Derrazi Listen To This Edition Of Outbeat News In Depth Here The post Show Notes – Jan. 25, 2026 appeared first on Outbeat Radio News.

Here we present the audio from our eleventh book club meeting discussing the book Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit

0:08 – A rebroadcast of our powerful October 2025 interview with Rebecca Solnit, author of two dozen books, and a profound storyteller of grassroots movements and the climate and environmental crisis on this planet. Most recently, she published No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain. The post No Straight Road Takes You There: Extended Interview with Rebecca Solnit appeared first on KPFA.

In the fifth talk of the Awakened Action series, Rebecca Solnit invites participants to name acts of moral beauty—from tribal leaders honoring Japanese American internment survivors to the Rainbow Defense Coalition protecting LGBTQ+ events. […]

The opening session of Awakened Action lead by Roshi Joan, Rebecca Solnit, Valerie Brown, and Terry Tempest Williams, participants are invited to explore how futures are shaped through attention, relationship, and imagination. The teachers […]

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Rebecca Solnit explores empathy as an act of imagination—the capacity to feel beyond the boundaries of one's own body. She begins with Roshi Joan's distinction between empathy […]

This week, our guest is Richard Misrach — one of the most influential voices in contemporary photography. His work appears in major museum collections around the world, and his innovative approach to large-scale color photography has influenced generations of artists. Since the 1970s, his work has merged aesthetics and activism, often depicting human impact on the environment. In series like Desert Cantos, Petrochemical America, and most recently, Cargo, rich colors and tranquil landscapes belie the ecological disasters that exist below the surface.  On November 11, 2025, Misrach came to the KQED studios to talk to Steven Winn about his newest project – photographs of cargo ships into and from the Port of Oakland taken from 2021-2025, on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic. The work is collected in a new book, Cargo, featuring an introduction by his longtime friend and frequent collaborator Rebecca Solnit.

Political analyst Rachel Maddow and author/activist Rebecca Solnit are sharp observers of Trump 2.0. They both share a common ground: opposition to anti-democratic actions taken by the second administration of U.S. President Trump, and where those actions are taking America, if not the world. The two American writers spoke with Nahlah Ayed about the existential issues of this American moment, a public conversation hosted by the International Festival of Authors and PEN Canada. The onstage event, in front of a Toronto audience, was part of the 5th annual Graeme Gibson Talk in Toronto.

No Kings Day on Oct. 18 was the largest peaceful protest in American history. Rebecca Solnit comments, and refutes Republican statements about violence on the left. Her most recent book is “Orwell's Roses.”Also: the fight to control the LA police: a decades long effort that culminated in 1992, after the Rodney King riots, when longtime police chief Darryl Gates was forced out. Danny Goldberg comments – at the time he was board chair of the ACLU of Southern California Foundation, and his new book is “Liberals With Attitude.” Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

No Kings Day on Oct. 18 was the largest peaceful protest in American history. Rebecca Solnit comments, and refutes Republican statements about violence on the left. Her most recent book is “Orwell's Roses.”Also: the fight to control the LA police: a decades long effort that culminated in 1992, after the Rodney King riots, when longtime police chief Darryl Gates was forced out. Danny Goldberg comments – at the time he was board chair of the ACLU of Southern California Foundation, and his new book is “Liberals With Attitude.” Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We explore how embracing uncertainty enables us to move beyond climate anxiety and despair to hope and action, with author and activist Rebecca Solnit.Summary: When you think about climate change, do you feel hope? In this episode of The Science of Happiness, we examine what it means to feel hopeful for the future of our planet. Renowned writer and activist Rebecca Solnit shares why she loves uncertainty, what gives her hope, and how hope empowers her. Later, we hear from climate scientist Patrick Gonzalez about why he believes climate hope is scientifically sound, and how much power we truly have to create meaningful change.How To Do This Practice: Acknowledge the hard stuff: Hope doesn't come from ignoring reality, it begins with honesty. Naming the fears, grief, or overwhelm we feel about climate change and life's challenges. Remember uncertainty leads to possibility: Despair often assumes the future is fixed. But history is full of surprises and turning points. When we leave space for uncertainty, we leave space for possibility. Focus on progress, not perfection: Every step forward matters. Clean energy expanding, policies shifting, communities protecting what they love. Small and large wins alike fuel the feedback loop between hope and action. Nourish yourself with beauty, awe, and joy: A sunrise, music, dancing, kindness, or the courage of others can all awaken something bigger in us. Awe quiets despair and helps us see new ways forward. Connect with others: Hope grows when it's shared. Joining movements, communities, or simply leaning on friends creates a sense of belonging and power. Together, the ants can move the elephant. Practice hope daily: Some days hope comes easily; other days it doesn't. That's normal. Journaling, noticing progress, limiting bad news, and showing up in community are all ways to keep practicing. Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. Today's Guests:REBECCA SOLNIT is an author, activist, and historian. She has written over 20 books on Western and Indigenous history, feminism, social change, hope, and disaster.Learn more about Rebecca Solnit here: http://rebeccasolnit.net/PATRICK GONZALEZ is a climate change scientist and forest ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley.Learn more about Patrick Gonzalez here: http://www.patrickgonzalez.net/Related The Science of Happiness episodes:  Climate, Hope, & Science Series: https://tinyurl.com/pb27repThe Healing Effects of Experiencing Wildlife: https://tinyurl.com/bde5av4zRelated Happiness Breaks:How To Ground Yourself in Nature: https://tinyurl.com/25ftdxpmPause to Look at the Sky: https://tinyurl.com/4jttkbw3Tell us about your experience with this practice. Email us at happinesspod@berkeley.edu or follow on Instagram @HappinessPod.Help us share The Science of Happiness! Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts and share this link with someone who might like the show: https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aapTranscription: https://tinyurl.com/3uw3hdk3

Melinda French Gates is on a crusade to boost research into women's health. She co-founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 which has, to date, donated over $100 billion to charitable projects. Since her divorce from Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, she has left their joint enterprise and set up her own, Pivotal Ventures, which has one purpose: to put power into the hands of women. She joined Anita Rani in the Woman's Hour studio.Gloria Allred is one of the best known women's rights lawyers in the US. She tells Nuala McGovern what has happened to victims' voices amongst the continuous revelations in the press from the Epstein Files. We then hear from bestselling author and leading feminist thinker Rebecca Solnit, who says the released documents are reminders of a culture that decades of feminism have started to dismantle.The conservationist and primatologist Dame Jane Goodall died this week aged 91. According to the Jane Goodall Institute, she died of natural causes in California where she was staying as part of a speaking tour in the US. There have been tributes from around the world. Wildlife biologist, National Geographic Explorer and President of the Wildlife Trust, Liz Bonnin, joins Anita Rani to remember this ground-breaking conservationist who revolutionised the study of great apes. Jillian Miller who is the director of the Gorilla Organisation, which works to save gorillas from extinction also pays tribute.Many of us will remember the multi-award winning Tracey Ullman from her TV shows, A Kick up the Eighties, Three of a Kind, as well as The Tracey Ullman Show, which was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Tracey joins Nuala McGovern to discuss her latest role in the film, Steve, in which she plays the deputy head in a last chance reform school for troubled teenage boys.A ‘carent 'is an adult child who is caring for one or both of their ageing parents, in-laws or elderly relatives. Many ‘carents' will be balancing work and family alongside. Dr Jackie Gray, a retired GP and founder of The Carents Room, joins Nuala McGovern to discuss, along with Kendra and Rachel who provide care for their parents.Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Simon Richardson

In this session of Upaya's Awareness in Action series, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit joins Roshi Joan Halifax to explore how stories shape reality, the nature of human behavior in crisis, and the discipline of hope […]

The sisters are ecstatic to build with writer, activist and historian Rebecca Solnit. Her latest book is No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays on Uneven Terrain.They talk about how solidarity is always across difference and about the things we have in common mattering more then the things we don't, how liberation is contagious, prioritizing where to pour our energy, a politics of inseparability vs. the politics of division, our default response of turning towards each other in a crisis, how it turns out that even when your world has fallen apart you can light up with joy because you found the meaning and connection that's been missing in everyday life, a world with an abundance of time and security rather than abundance as neoliberal rhetoric, how there's no shortage of anything, just distribution problems, hunkering down for the likely reality of climate collapse and how we can't save everything but that doesn't mean we can't save anything.---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TRANSCRIPT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT OUR SHOW⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PEEP us on IG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠