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The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

By (author) Sarah Schulman

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From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime activist and critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes a brilliant examination of the misunderstood concept of solidarity which seeks to provide a new vision of what it means, and why it matters. Â In this nuanced analysis, Schulman challenges the traditional notion of solidarity as a simple union of equals, arguing that in todayâ€™s world of globalized power structures, true solidarity requires the collaboration of bystanders and conflicted perpetrators with the excluded and oppressed.Â Â Schulman examines a range of case studies, from the fight for abortion rights in post-Franco Spain, to NYCâ€™s AIDS activism in the 1990s, to the current wave of protest movements against Israelâ€™s genocide of the Palestinian people, and her own experience growing up as a queer female artist in male dominated culture industries. Reckoning with the successes and failures of these movements, she argues that action always comes at a cost, despite not always being effective. But without solidarity we are stuck with the status quo, and we lose any hope of progressive change. Â By turns challenging, inspiring, pragmatic, and poetic,Â The Fantasy and Necessity of SolidarityÂ provides a much-needed path for how we can work together towards justice now and for the future.