Fall Arts Celebration-Lecture

Rebecca Solnit, a San Francisco writer, historian, and activist, is the author of seventeen books about geography, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism. Solnit’s recent, Men Explain Things to Me, is credited with launching the term “mansplaining” and has been labeled “a touchstone of the feminist movement.” Her other titles include subjects such as a natural history of walking, what she calls “the crisis of urbanism” & two creative atlases that reimagine how cities are mapped. “Solnit’s writing,” one critic notes, “is born of intense reverie and deep reading, passionate inquiry and political defiance; she is a lyric quester for the texture of everyday life.”