regankalani 's review for:

Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit

5.0

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“…I was told to move to someplace more affluent (though some of my most malevolent harassment occurred in such places), to get a car, to spend money I didn’t have on taxis, to cut my hair, dress as a man or attach myself to a man, to never go anywhere alone, get a gun, learn martial arts, to adapt to this reality, which was treated as something as natural or inevitable as the weather. But it wasn’t weather; it was particular people and a system that gave them latitude, looked the other way, eroticized, excised, ignored, dismissed, and trivialized. Changing that culture and those conditions seemed to be the only adequate response. It still does.”

Wow did book speak to me. I felt so much resonance with Solnit’s words and left feeling ultimately more hopeful. 100% would recommend.