Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)

I really love adrienne maree brown's work - incredibly insightful and inspiring stuff that feeds my soul and educates. I might as well be highlighting this entire book (same happened with Emergent Strategy, lol). I admit I had a harder time trying to decipher Emergent Strategy when I first read it, but since then, I've followed adrienne maree brown around on the internet learning to grasp these concepts more deeply, and this book actually offers a LOT of clarity for the questions I had (I'll probably go back and read ES again once I'm done with this one). It's a hard book to read during quarantine time, living in a tiny rural town with a lover who lives four hours away, but it ain't the worst of peoples' problems right now. This approach really brings a perspective of joy and life that is so absolutely necessary on the daily. It's probably the best way so far that I've seen to counteract "the fatigue."

I'm about 50 pages in to this nearly 500 page book. I'm not big on non-fiction or long books, but I've enjoyed following the author on social media so I wanted to support them through buying (and reading!) the book. There's tons of food for thought, so it's not a book you can breeze through. You need time to digest what you read. Or at least I do! Lots of great references to other readings that influenced both the author, and the other people discussed or interviewed in the book. I've enjoyed the perspectives and education so far, and look forward to what I'll learn in the coming pages! My main criticism is that reading the book is a similar experience to falling down a "research hole" on the internet. While everything connects along a common theme, the "gathered together", pastiche nature of the book takes away what I enjoy about reading a book as opposed to being on the internet, which is the opportunity to slow down and not jump from thing to thing. However, other readers might find that this style of book is a perfect way to break up 500 pages.

I'm still processing the magic of this book so I don't even know what to say about it yet - except that all women need to read it.

Massive. Important. Would be wonderful if everyone, the world over, from dictators to homemakers, read it. Beautiful ideas for making a kinder, sweeter, more just life and world.

Adrienne's book is a conversation. Its not just words on pages. You just don't use your sense of vision to take it in. You use your sense of hearing to listen too. But it is not a conversation that you have in one sitting. The book honestly lead me to research other books and other topics. But then I came back to Adrienne's book. And began listening again.

I am only three chapters in and I’ve quoted this book to all of my friends and family. Brown offers the queer black/brown body a map back to itself. The compilation is guide to healing aiming to reconnect the body to itself—its pleasure and joy— and thus reconnecting us to pleasure and joy of the communities we inhabit and hope for. A must read.

What a powerful voice! This book is blowing my mind. Fantastic compilation of different ways to see the world in a delicious way! Be prepare to face your pleasure repression.

This book is right on time and is a helpful tool for self care and self love. It will be thumbed through for years in my library.

This is an absolutely amazing book that I cannot recommend enough. Quick delivery and service too

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Please buy this book for everyone you know. It’s an amazing piece of non fiction. It uplifts the stories of those that often go untold and it create space for feeling good about keeping yourself in the activist game!

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LOVE THIS BOOK