
Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle with Spirit

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.