Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle With Spirit
I always prioritize how people feel.20 Is it a pleasure to be with each other? Does the agenda or space allow for aliveness, connection, and joy? Is there a “yes!” at the center of the work? There are so many things that are violent, offensive, unbearable. An embodied “no” is so justified—but I don’t believe it moves us forward.
“Yes!” has a future.
brown, adrienne maree; Rodriguez; Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi • Pleasure Activism
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
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This is why I call myself a celebrationist —because I believe joy is not peripheral to justice. Joy is justice. Pleasure is not a side effect of the work; it is the work. So many of our people didn’t survive just to survive. They survived so we could feel good . So we could gather, and heal, and holler, and praise, and rest, and keep going.
Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle with Spirit
Movements and Liberationist struggles must be and have been grounded by a spirituality towards life, joy, and creation of abundance and freedom.
Joy IS the political work.
Celebrating freedom and kinship and togetherness IS the crucial backbone of movement building. “We don’t just want revolution. We want reclamation of life. We want relationship.”
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