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ashleybeereads's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Slavery, Racism, and Misogyny
laurareads87's review against another edition
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
A visionary celebration of the transformative potentiality of a politics of refusal of capitalism's demands to be perpetually productive, to justify one's existence with output, and to only rest to be able to work harder later. Hersey defines rest as "anything that slows you down enough to allow your body and mind to connect in the deepest way" [83] and articulates rest as resistance against white supremacy and capitalism, rooting her work in the inspiration of, and in conversation with, ancestral wisdom, Black Liberation and Womanist theologies, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, maroon histories, and Afrofuturism. Hersey asks the reader to make space to imagine, to envision possibilities beyond capitalist grind culture, to claim the divine and inherent right to rest and be at leisure, to interrogate what might be possible when we envision socially just futures from a position of well restedness and deep connection to embodied wisdom and spirit. I am grateful for this book, will be grappling with it ongoingly, & recommend it wholeheartedly.
<i>Content warnings:</i> slavery, racism, sexism, death of a parent, grief
<i>Content warnings:</i> slavery, racism, sexism, death of a parent, grief
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Sexism, Death of parent, and Grief
leweylibrary's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Before even finishing this book, I posted on my Instagram story that "not to be dramatic, but this book is life changing" and it really is. Like the book says, no one has ever given me permission to rest. No one has told me that I deserve to rest, that I am already doing enough or even too much.
Definitely do not go into this book expecting quick, easy tips and tricks, but do go into it ready to have your entire way of thinking and going about life altered for the better. Making the change in a world that's so against rest will be immensely difficult, but the author is living proof that it's worth it. Now, brb while I go buy a nap mat of some sort for my office ✌️
Definitely do not go into this book expecting quick, easy tips and tricks, but do go into it ready to have your entire way of thinking and going about life altered for the better. Making the change in a world that's so against rest will be immensely difficult, but the author is living proof that it's worth it. Now, brb while I go buy a nap mat of some sort for my office ✌️
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Slavery, Classism, Racism, Colonisation, Violence, Medical trauma, Sexism, and Addiction
Minor: Police brutality
the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition
hopeful
inspiring
relaxing
slow-paced
3.75
This book would be a great intro to the ways that "laziness" and "hustle culture" serve as tools for capitalism and cost us our health and well-being. If you are already familiar with the topic, however, you may find the theory a little high-level.
While the author is very poetic, her writing can sometimes feel like she uses more words than necessary. Ultimately, I felt the book could have probably been a bit shorter as many of the core ideas were repeated throughout with increasingly lengthy language.
While the author is very poetic, her writing can sometimes feel like she uses more words than necessary. Ultimately, I felt the book could have probably been a bit shorter as many of the core ideas were repeated throughout with increasingly lengthy language.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism and Slavery
therealchencia's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery and Racism
stevia333k's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
tense
slow-paced
5.0
I've been wanting an abolitionist therapy lens for months, and this helps with that need. As a disabled queer person i burned myself out too quickly in life & now I have to deal with multiple meltdowns/shutdowns per day to say the least of it. This book helps me attend to that need
I got this book via an audiobook from my library & I'm considering buying it because the narrator talks so slow that I can use this the way some people play instrumental music, that is a way to calm down (like I have to reduce stimuli, so music can in fact be stimulating. Listening to the book as I relax helps me get over the guilt of needing to take care of my body. It helps me spit back out the poison of the school to orison pipeline system that fucked up my body & burned it out so quickly.)
Please note this book is awkward to label with content warnings about because yeah it talks about systems of oppression because it seeks to combat/resist those. It talks about grind culture as deriving from slavery. And you can't just rest, the rest needs to be combined with anti-racism, anti-capitalism, anti-sexism. But the book is also healing. I feel this is the case with other books I read, but from my perspective as an autistic person like this book is talking about like how to cope with being triggered, so that's a second layer other books usually don't have.
I got this book via an audiobook from my library & I'm considering buying it because the narrator talks so slow that I can use this the way some people play instrumental music, that is a way to calm down (like I have to reduce stimuli, so music can in fact be stimulating. Listening to the book as I relax helps me get over the guilt of needing to take care of my body. It helps me spit back out the poison of the school to orison pipeline system that fucked up my body & burned it out so quickly.)
Please note this book is awkward to label with content warnings about because yeah it talks about systems of oppression because it seeks to combat/resist those. It talks about grind culture as deriving from slavery. And you can't just rest, the rest needs to be combined with anti-racism, anti-capitalism, anti-sexism. But the book is also healing. I feel this is the case with other books I read, but from my perspective as an autistic person like this book is talking about like how to cope with being triggered, so that's a second layer other books usually don't have.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Body shaming, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Bullying, Grief, Slavery, Classism, Racism, and Torture
streberkatze's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Slavery and Racism
zombiezami's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
This book wasn’t quite what I expected. I’ve followed the Nap Ministry blog for a while, and I really love the insights, audacity, and creativity of the author. However, because I’m familiar with her blog, it was easy to see the parts that were lifted almost wholesale and placed into the book.
This book was at its best when the author was sharing her personal experiences and examples of events she’s hosted. She definitely touched on community care in name, but I wish she had drawn a deeper connection to how community care facilitates rest. I also thought the connections to slavery and maroon communities were excellent.
A lot of this book felt repetitive. When the repetition was used well, I could tell it was to help a particular message sink in. Other times it was like, “how much do I have to be reminded that we work at a machine-like pace?? I get it!!”
Listening to the audiobook, I loved listening to the author’s voice.
This book was at its best when the author was sharing her personal experiences and examples of events she’s hosted. She definitely touched on community care in name, but I wish she had drawn a deeper connection to how community care facilitates rest. I also thought the connections to slavery and maroon communities were excellent.
A lot of this book felt repetitive. When the repetition was used well, I could tell it was to help a particular message sink in. Other times it was like, “how much do I have to be reminded that we work at a machine-like pace?? I get it!!”
Listening to the audiobook, I loved listening to the author’s voice.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Racism, Medical content, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Chronic illness, Colonisation, and Violence
pricklybriar's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
3.0
I felt like this book was very repetitive despite being so short. As a non-religious person, the references to the divine right to rest and Spirit really just didn’t resonate me either. I agree with a lot of what Hersey has to say about capitalism being inherently exploitative and robbing all people, particularly people of colour, of their time and humanity. Most of us definitely need time to rest and reflect to find meaning in our lives, and certainly if we want to have the creativity we need to imagine a better future and fight for it. I think I wish that there had been more exploration of what rest means to people who don’t participate in the workforce (particularly people with disabilities), since they are frequently excluded from these conversations, but nonetheless subject to the effects of grind culture and capitalism.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery and Racism
eslsilver's review against another edition
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent, Racism, Classism, and Slavery