The grounds for hope are in the
shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks, who
themselves don’t know yet whether they will have any effect, in the people you
have not yet heard of who […] become something you cannot yet imagine. In this
epic struggle between light and dark, it’s the dark side — that of the
anonymous, the unseen, the officially powerless, the visionaries and
subversives in the shadows — that we must hope for. For those onstage, we can
just hope the curtain comes down soon and the next act is better, that it comes
more directly from the populist shadows.
Text: Rebecca Solnit
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Zoe Leonard’s iconic 1992 poem, titled “I want a president
