East End Books Boston Seaport presents: Sarah Schulman - "THE FANTASY AND NECESSITY OF SOLIDARITY" 
in conversation w/Timothy McCarthy
 5/23 at 6pm. Boston Seaport store (300 Pier 4 Blvd. - next to ICA Museum & Woods Hill Pier 4 Restaurant).
From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime social activist and outspoken critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes a brilliant examination of the inherent psychological and social challenges to solidarity movements, and what that means for the future
For those who seek to combat injustice, solidarity with the oppressed is one of the highest ideals, yet it does not come without complication. In this searing yet uplifting book, award-winning writer and cultural critic Sarah Schulman delves into the intricate and often misunderstood concept of solidarity to provide a new vision for what it means to engage in this work--and why it matters.
To grapple with solidarity, Schulman writes, we must recognize its inherent fantasies. Those being oppressed dream of relief, that a bystander will intervene though it may not seem to be in their immediate interest to do so, and that the oppressor will be called out and punished. Those standing in solidarity with the oppressed are occluded by a different fantasy: that their intervention is effective, that it will not cost them, and that they will be rewarded with friendship and thanks. Neither is always the case, and yet in order to realize our full potential as human beings in relation with others, we must continue to pursue action towards these shared goals.
Within this framework, Schulman examines a range of case studies, from the fight for abortion rights in post-Franco Spain, to NYC's AIDS activism in the 1990s, to the current wave of campus protest movements against Israel's war on Gaza, and her own experience growing up as a queer female artist in male dominated culture industries. Drawing parallels between queer, Palestinian, feminist, and artistic struggles for justice, Schulman challenges the traditional notion of solidarity as a simple union of equals, arguing that in today's world of globalized power structures, true solidarity requires the collaboration of bystanders and conflicted perpetrators with the excluded and oppressed. That action comes at a cost, and is not always effective. And yet without it we sentence ourselves to a world without progressive change towards visions of liberation.
By turns challenging, inspiring, pragmatic, and poetic, 
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity
 provides a much-needed path for how we can work together to create a more just, more equitable present and future.
Sarah Schulman
 is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her books include 
The Gentrification of the Mind
, 
Conflict Is Not Abuse
, and 
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
, and the novels 
The Cosmopolitans
 and 
Maggie Terry
. Schulman's honors include a Fulbright in Judaic Studies, a Guggenheim in Playwriting, and honors from Lambda Literary, the Publishing Triangle, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, the American Library Association, and others. Her writing has appeared in 
The New Yorker
, 
New York
, 
Harper's Magazine
, 
The Atlantic
, 
The Nation
, 
The New Republic
, 
The New York Times
, and 
The Guardian
. Schulman holds an endowed chair in creative writing at Northwestern University and is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
 is an award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard University since 1998. At HGSE, he is core faculty in the 
Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum
, 
Online Master’s Program in Education Leadership
, and 
Higher Education Concentration
, and faculty chair of 
The B.R.A.V.E. Institute
. At the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the first openly gay faculty member and still teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters, he is faculty chair of the 
Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program
 at the 
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
 and faculty affiliate at the 
Center for Public Leadership
. He is also a core faculty member in Harvard’s 
Advanced Leadership Initiative
. An historian of social movements, he teaches courses on equity and education, communication and leadership, and the politics and history of creating change.
Lecturer on Education
Faculty Chair, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program (at Carr Center/HKS)
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