Adrienne Maree Brown

No more self-denial. Politics should be a resounding, erotic "yes," not another deadening "no."

The Politics of Feeling Good

Pleasure Activism

Karolina

i like the a lot of this book even if it is rather gratuitous. i love a name with no auto-caps should out bell hooks 

michael mann

heleen de boever

There are many ideas propagated here that I vibe with immensely; just found it a bit hard to connect with their delivery. Nevertheless, want to return to/research more on/experiment with some of the topics explored in this book, notably harm reduction in the context of drug use, strategic celibacy, (tenderness during) period sex, and generative somatics. Yay, knowledge! Double yay for embodied knowledge.

Katie Chua

enjoyed about four or five of the essays and found the rest only a scratch on the surface. Would have loved more in-depth critical analysis/theory. But that’s not this book! Which is fine!

Anna Jacobs

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adrienne maree brown

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "Pleasure Activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde's invitation to use the erotic as power and Toni Cade Bambara's exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. Writers including Cara Page of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice, Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of This Body Is Not an Apology, and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—they create new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, brown launches a new series of the same name with this volume, bringing readers books that explore experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today. Books that find the opportunity in every crisis!

Pleasure Activism The Politics of Feeling Good

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