the politics of feeling good Brown, Adrienne M. creator text bibliography biography cau Chico, CA AK Press c2019 2019 monographic eng

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441 p. : ill. (some col.) 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. Section One Who Taught You to Feel Good? -- Section Two The Politics of Radical Sex -- Section Three A Circle of Sex -- Section Four The Politics of Radical Drug Use -- Section Five Pleasure as Political Practice -- Section Six Outro, Thank Yous. written and gathered by adrienne maree brown. Includes bibliographical references. Feminism Feminists Attitudes Feminists Sexual behavior Feminists Interviews African American feminists African American feminists Attitudes African American women Political activity African American women Attitudes Sex workers United States Social conditions Women Sexual behavior African American women Sexual behavior Pleasure Social aspects HQ1155 .B76 2019 9781849353267 1849353263 210220 on1028520087