Book Talk: The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

Name: Book Talk: The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity
Start: 2025-09-29T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406

Schedule

Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406 | Minneapolis, MN

Join Moon Palace Books and author Sarah Schulman on Monday, September 29th at 6:00pm for a discussion of her book The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. Sarah will be joined in conversation by Amelia María de la Luz Montes.
**This is an in-person event, and masks are required in the store.**
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. 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.
Amelia María de la Luz Montes is Professor, Fulbright Scholar and Chair of The Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at The University of Minnesota. She was born and raised in Los Angeles. Professor Montes’s Penguin Classics edition of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s novel Who Would Have Thought It? was listed on the Latino Books Month List from the Association of American Publishers. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize finalist and has been recognized for her fiction and non-fiction writing in outlets such as Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Her latest publications are, a short story entitled, “The Omaha Mariachi Dyke” in the Afro Hispanic Review; the essays “Trigger Warnings” in the anthology, Don’t Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn’t Seen; and “Los Rumbos Que Marcan El Cuerpo/Places That Mark the Body” in Hostos Review: An International Journal of Literature and Culture. She is editor of the forthcoming anthology, Changing Our Minds with Gloria Anzaldúa (University of Texas Press). She is currently finishing a memoir on her year in the former Yugoslavia.