Pleasure activism : the politics of feeling good

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Pleasure activism : the politics of feeling good

Title remainder

the politics of feeling good

Statement of responsibility

written and gathered by adrienne maree brown

Title variation

The politics of feeling good

Creator

• brown, adrienne maree

Author

• brown, adrienne maree

Compiler

• brown, adrienne maree

Subject

• African American feminists
• African American feminists -- Attitudes
• African American women -- Attitudes
• African American women -- Attitudes
• African American women -- Political activity
• African American women -- Political activity
• African American women -- Sexual behavior
• African American women -- Sexual behavior
• African Americans
• BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General
• Female
• Feminism
• Feminism
• Feminists
• Feminists -- Attitudes
• Feminists -- Attitudes
• Feminists -- Interviews
• Feminists -- Sexual behavior
• Femmes -- Sexualité
• Féminisme
• Féministes -- Attitudes
• Féministes -- Entretiens
• Féministes -- Sexualité
• Féministes noires américaines
• Féministes noires américaines -- Attitudes
• Humans
• Interview
• Interviews
• Interviews
• Interviews
• Noires américaines -- Activité politique
• Noires américaines -- Attitudes
• Noires américaines -- Sexualité
• Noirs américains
• Plaisir -- Aspect social
• Pleasure
• Pleasure -- Social aspects
• Pleasure -- Social aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
• Sex Workers
• Sex workers -- United States -- Social conditions
• United States
• Women -- Sexual behavior
• Women -- Sexual behavior
• feminism
• African American
• interviews
• African American feminists

Genre

• Interviews
• interviews
• Interview
• Entretiens

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YDX

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Emergent Strategies Series

Series volume

1