It’s a question she examines here most prominently in relation to women’s rights, from the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford to the rise of the incel movement. “Who gets to be the subject of the story is an immensely political question,” she notes in the title essay, in which she tackles the myth of a “real” America (white, male and working class) disproportionately pandered to by the right. Whose Story Is This? continues the preoccupation of her last collection, The Mother of All Questions, with the issue of whose voices are legitimised and whose silenced. Her slim 2005 book, Hope in the Dark, was reissued in 2016 in the wake of Trump’s election, as a manifesto and a rallying cry for progressives. Approaching 60, Solnit was described as an activist long before the term was commonplace, and much of her writing has been born from her immersion in protest movements, notably around environmental issues and the rights of indigenous peoples.
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