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Pleasure Activism
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • 4 highlights
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Something I think about a lot is how liberation has always been spiritual, always been embodied. There’s an ancestral component to this. Getting ourselves free has always involved spirit, and always involved the body.
I don’t mean spirit in a floaty, abstract, white-washed way.
I mean ass-shaking.
I mean hair-braiding.
I mean altar-tending.
I mean sweat... See more
I don’t mean spirit in a floaty, abstract, white-washed way.
I mean ass-shaking.
I mean hair-braiding.
I mean altar-tending.
I mean sweat... See more
Jamila Bradley • Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle With Spirit
How do we learn to harness the power and wisdom of pleasure, rather than trying to erase the body, the erotic, the connective tissue from society?
How would we organize and move our communities if we shifted to focus on what we long for and love rather than what we are negatively reacting to?