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Sarah Schulman in conversation with Caro De Robertis – City Lights and Thesis Books celebrate the publication of The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity – by Sarah Schulman – published by Thesis Books
From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime social activist and outspoken critic of theIsraeli war on Gaza, comes a brilliant examination of the inherent psychological and social challenges to solidarity movements, and what that meansfor the future
For those who seek to combat injustice, solidarity with the oppressed is one of the highest ideals, yet it does not come without complication. In this searing yet uplifting book, award-winning writer and cultural critic Sarah Schulman delves into the intricate and often misunderstood concept of solidarity to provide a new vision for what it means to engage in this work—and why it matters.
Within this framework, Schulman examines a range of case studies, from the fight for abortion rights in post-Franco Spain, to NYC’s AIDS activism in the 1990s, to the current wave of campus protest movements against Israel’s war on Gaza, and her own experience growing up as a queer female artist in male dominated culture industries. Drawing parallels between queer, Palestinian, feminist, and artistic struggles for justice, Schulman challenges the traditional notion of solidarity as a simple union of equals, arguing that in today’s world of globalized power structures, true solidarity requires the collaboration of bystanders and conflicted perpetrators with the excluded and oppressed. That action comes at a cost, and is not always effective. And yet without it we sentence ourselves to a world without progressive change towards visions ofliberation.
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