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Rebecca Solnit on Approaching These Times with Hope, Imagination and Perseverance

2025/6/18
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Alexis Madrigal：我们应该从“阿姨”这个话题开始讨论，因为Rebecca Solnit的文章风格独特，无人能及。你在书中提倡扩展关怀网络，你认为“阿姨”的重要性是什么？ Rebecca Solnit：我参与了由Christina Wong创立的反缝纫队，这个经历让我开始思考“阿姨”的意义。“阿姨”们往往会带来新的冒险和故事，打破常规。在当今社会，扩展家庭关系至关重要。“阿姨”是边缘力量进入中心的绝佳例子，这与本书的中心论点相符。好的变革通常源于边缘群体，逐渐影响主流。最高法院的决策是长期社会变革的结果，而非权力者的恩赐。这本书提倡以长远的眼光看待问题，扩大对家庭和关系的定义。

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This chapter explores the concept of 'Aunties' as extended care networks, highlighting their role in community building and challenging traditional family structures. It uses the example of the Anti-Sewing Squad to illustrate the power of these marginal groups in driving social change.
  • Aunties represent a subversive force in challenging linear family narratives.
  • They offer alternative support networks beyond the nuclear family.
  • Their power emerges from the margins and migrates to the center, driving progressive change.

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In her new book of essays, “No Straight Road Takes You There,” writer and activist Rebecca Solnit urges us to not give in to feelings of doom and complacency in threatening political times, but instead to imagine a radically better future. “The most important territory to take is in the imagination,” she writes. “Once you create a new idea of what is possible and acceptable, the seeds are planted; once it becomes what the majority believes, you’ve created the conditions in which winning happens.” We talk to Solnit about her essays and the importance of persevering, even when it doesn’t feel good.

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Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian and activist; author, "No Straight Road Takes You There"

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