A review by thisreadingcorner
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

funny hopeful informative reflective

5.0

“Pleasure is the point” 
 
adrienne maree brown gathered some of her prior work, close friends, and fellow pleasure activists to help us all reimagine a life centered on joy. An embodied, empathetic, fully present kind of living - homework prompts and all. 
 
Buy the book. Bring a snack and a beverage (or three - I’m partial to water, coffee, and something bubbly ✨). You can buy the reading guide from @smartbrowngirls too, it’s a dense collection. Below are my favorite sections and pages quoted are in my Instagram review.
 
Section One: Who Taught You to Feel Good? 
  • The Sweetness of Salt by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (p.73, p.80)
  • Why We Get Off by Joan Morgan (p.90)

Section Two: The Politics of Radical Sex
 
  • Wherein I Write About Sex: Five Tangible Tools of a Pleasure Activist by amb (p.122)

Section Three: A Circle of Sex
 
  • Fuck You, Pay Me: The Pleasures of Sex Work by Chanelle Gallant (p.180)
  • Pornography and Accountability by amb (p.228)
 
Section Four: The Politics of Radical Drug Use
 
  • Conditions of Possibility: A Conversation with Monique Tula (p.248)
 
Section Five: Pleasure as Political Practice
 
  • Burlesque and Liberation by Michi Osato and Una Osato (p.375)
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