Author: Sarah Schulman
Publisher: Peninsula
Paperback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
So says… Sarah Schulman has been rocking the foundations of how we read, think and love since she published The Sophie Horowitz Story in 1984. The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity is filled with riveting accounts of forty years on the queer, feminist, anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian front lines as an activist, artist and teacher. Schulman writes from the dual fire of solidarity: its incendiary potential and the chance of getting burned. She addresses that risk through the potential of true dialogue and listening, of sitting with genuine disagreement while being completely true to her ethics. As open about the experiences that shaped her as about the commitments that emerge from that shaping, this is a fantastic and necessary book.