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Wen Stephenson

Wen Stephenson is a journalist, essayist, and activist. He’s the author of What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Climate Justice, and these days writes mostly for The Nation, The Baffler, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. You can sign up for his email updates here.

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Solidarity Now

There are times when, as if by some mysterious alchemical process, mere ink and printed typeface can bring an actual human existence to life, and a person’s voice seems to rise, almost audibly, from the page. In this case, the voice belongs to a Black woman named Emma Tiller ...