TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Adrienne M.
TI  - Pleasure activism: the politics of feeling good 
SN  - 9781849353267
AV  - HQ1155 .B76 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chico, CA : 
PB  - AK Press
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Feminists
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - Interviews
KW  - African American feminists
KW  - African American women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Sex workers
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women
KW  - Pleasure
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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.
N2  - 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
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