A review by laurareads87
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

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
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