Pleasure Activism

The Politics of Feeling Good

Author: adrienne maree brown
ISBN: 9781849353267

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "Pleasure Activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde's invitation to use the erotic as power and Toni Cade Bambara's exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. Writers including Cara Page of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice, Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of This Body Is Not an Apology, and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—they create new narratives about how politics can feel

Publisher: AK Press
Publish Date: 2019-03-19

Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Body, Mind & Spirit / General, Social Science / Women's Studies, Health & Fitness / Sexuality, Social Science / Essays

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