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Pleasure Activism

The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)

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Pleasure Activism

By: Adrienne Maree Brown
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The New York Times best seller from AK Press is now an audiobook — read by Adrienne Maree Brown herself!

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, Adrienne brings her audience experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today.

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adrienne i LOVE YOU… you are light… thank YOU for such an incredible masterpiece.

this book has been an eye opening read.

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I love this book. I would listen to it on repeat if not for the mouth sounds. the audio needed a better pop shield or filter to lesson the mouth sounds. it's not the author/readers fault, it just needed a filter.

I love the book but not the audio

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One of the best books I’ve ever read. A new bible. Fed my heart and soul, thank you!

Life changing

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Wonderfully immersive approach to presenting an audiobook. Entertaining, challenging, heartbreaking, soul-reviving, belief-evolving, loving and caring. The singing between chapters was such a community opening invitation to enjoy a culture that I would not otherwise have had opportunity to participate in, yet it’s inclusion in the audiobook added that sense of invitation and also observation of a rich culture, that is then expertly explored and discussed within the work. A considered and researched piece of writing. A++.

Brain shifting. I love myself more because of this book.

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Singing in between chapters, constant interruptions of historical texts for virtue signalling footnotes. Not for me.

Great content, audiobook is irritating

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