Links: Rebecca Solnit essays on mansplaining and post-tsunami Japan

Compassionate, observant essay about visiting Japan a year after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. In Fukushima by Rebecca Solnit.

There is no such thing as a natural disaster, the disaster sociologists say. In other words, no matter what the origins of a disaster, human systems – physical, cultural, political – can amplify, channel or mitigate what happens.

(via BookSlut)

Repost of Rebecca Solnit's classic essay about egregious mansplaining, now with an introduction about a mansplaining letter she received in response to the original essay. The Archipelago of Arrogance.

That I was indeed the author of the very important book it turned out he hadn't read, just read about in the New York Times Book Review a few months earlier, so confused the neat categories into which his world was sorted that he was stunned speechless -- for a moment, before he began holding forth again.

(via Taking the Lane)