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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
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the cultivation of joy as a form of sustenance and a means of rebellion.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
Rebecca Solnit/joy is a strategy on X: "They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving." / X
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Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action. Feel the sorrow, take the action, but keep pressing the weight of joy against it all, until it beco... See more
Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian
Ultimately, pleasure activism is us learning to make justice and liberation the most pleasurable experiences we can have on this planet.
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
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
Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action. Feel the sorrow, take the action, but keep pressing the weight of joy against it all, until it beco... See more