Rest Is Resistance

Barter and participate in mutual aid, make community care your biggest goal, learn to grow your own food, or support a Black or Indigenous farmer who does, build with an herbalist and other root workers.

I know that allowing your mind the space to feel and daydream will change things.

The more we rest, the more we will wake up.

Take time with reading, processing, and healing. It is not a race. Urgency is a myth that preys upon your fears about the future.

Womanist theologian Emilie Townes beautifully shares the fullness of liberation as a process. In her article “Ethics as an Art of Doing the Work Our Souls Must Have” that appears in the anthology Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader, she speaks about how distinct liberation and freedom are: “An important distinction must be made: liberation and fr

White supremacy thinking has taught us there is only a binary and the rigidity of this type of thinking keeps us available to the toxic systems, but unable to inhabit the divinity of our true selves. This is a time to simply stop and feel. A time to not force or attempt to make sense of what can and will happen when we allow our bodies to heal from

Fear and scarcity are a big part of how the culture keeps us bound up in the hamster wheel. Our own personal experiences and the continued reinforcement we receive from those around us paralyze us with disbelief. I was told repeatedly by employers, friends, teachers, politicians, and church leaders that life was for doing, hustling, and following a

Understand exhaustion is not productive. You are not resting to gain energy to be more productive and to do more.

Slowly accept you have been brainwashed. Your socialization in a capitalist culture makes this true. Begin to deprogram by accepting this truth.