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? Author and 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, she challenges us to rethink
the ground rules of activism. Her mindset-altering essays are
interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist
thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee
Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together they cover a wide array of
subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to
sex and drugs—building 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!