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Radykalna nadzieja. Źródło odwagi i siły w niebezpiecznych czasach
Caro De Robertis
4.03 AVERAGE
115 reviews for:
Radykalna nadzieja. Źródło odwagi i siły w niebezpiecznych czasach
Caro De Robertis
4.03 AVERAGE
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I was attracted to Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times because of the outstanding contributors, including Junot Díaz, Lisa See, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jane Smiley, and Celeste Ng. A firm believer that writers are the key to maintaining society's highest aspirations, I hoped to find inspiration and affirmation in these pages.
The letters are written to leaders of the past, to real and and to imagined future children, to strangers and to the known. Each contributor speaks of their personal journey and agony. They share a fear of our government's agenda that threatens hard-won rights and protections.
The letters are divided into three sections: Roots, which "explores the histories that bring us to this moment," and Branches, considering present day people and communities, and Seeds, considering the future who will inherit the system and world we will leave behind.
Frankly, many of these letters were hard to read, confronting us with the pain and misery inflicted upon people because of their color, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. I could only read an essay or two a day. Yet there is also in these letters a strength, a commitment, a vision of hope.
The message, says Katie Kitamura, is that this is not a time for complacency, and yet we must be open and not mired in certitude, to think and not be compelled to "ideological haste."
"Beware easy answers," warns Boris Fishman, "Lets get out of our comfort zones...let's lose our certainty--perhaps our arrogance."
"Be kind, be curious, be helpful...stay open," Celeste Ng writes to her child.
"Please promise me that you will, insoar as any person can, set your fear aside and devote yourself to a full, honest life. That, my child, is the first and most important act of resistance any of us can undertake," advises Meredith Russo to her child.
The struggle for human rights is ongoing, continual. We have seen the backlash against hard gained protections and equality. The battle continues.
I received a free ebook from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
The letters are written to leaders of the past, to real and and to imagined future children, to strangers and to the known. Each contributor speaks of their personal journey and agony. They share a fear of our government's agenda that threatens hard-won rights and protections.
The letters are divided into three sections: Roots, which "explores the histories that bring us to this moment," and Branches, considering present day people and communities, and Seeds, considering the future who will inherit the system and world we will leave behind.
Frankly, many of these letters were hard to read, confronting us with the pain and misery inflicted upon people because of their color, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. I could only read an essay or two a day. Yet there is also in these letters a strength, a commitment, a vision of hope.
The message, says Katie Kitamura, is that this is not a time for complacency, and yet we must be open and not mired in certitude, to think and not be compelled to "ideological haste."
"Beware easy answers," warns Boris Fishman, "Lets get out of our comfort zones...let's lose our certainty--perhaps our arrogance."
"Be kind, be curious, be helpful...stay open," Celeste Ng writes to her child.
"Please promise me that you will, insoar as any person can, set your fear aside and devote yourself to a full, honest life. That, my child, is the first and most important act of resistance any of us can undertake," advises Meredith Russo to her child.
The struggle for human rights is ongoing, continual. We have seen the backlash against hard gained protections and equality. The battle continues.
I received a free ebook from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
I loved it. A few of the essays weren't quite what I'd hoped but most of them are 100% open, honest, and inspiring. A timely boost for The Resistance.
This book was being featured in the James Baldwin section of the National Portrait Gallery’s gift shop. It felt timely, so I bought it. Of course, plenty of Baldwin quotes featured, along with Audre Lorde (will check her out). I’m more of a political being now than I was in 2016 and in some ways it scares me. I want to see the best in people, always, but I’m starting to get angrier. I don’t really know how to raise my voice except through writing, so Katie Kitamura’s essay, “Language is How You Will Make Yourself,” resonated with me the most:
“Because of you, I want more than anything to be practical, to act with efficiency. Instead, I feel myself staring at a world that seems completely depthless.”
“Words make and unmake the world with terrifying rapidity, and they do so without moral distinction.”
“We need to defend another way of thinking and being, one that allows for hesitation, for nuance and mutability.”
“I need to believe in the value of the doubt I now feel, in its ability to create a space for the slowness of thought and conviction.”
I am the creator of my own political reality. I just want to know as much as I can before acting. I might be shamed for that, but I trust my gut to tell me when the time is right.
“Because of you, I want more than anything to be practical, to act with efficiency. Instead, I feel myself staring at a world that seems completely depthless.”
“Words make and unmake the world with terrifying rapidity, and they do so without moral distinction.”
“We need to defend another way of thinking and being, one that allows for hesitation, for nuance and mutability.”
“I need to believe in the value of the doubt I now feel, in its ability to create a space for the slowness of thought and conviction.”
I am the creator of my own political reality. I just want to know as much as I can before acting. I might be shamed for that, but I trust my gut to tell me when the time is right.
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