We Will Rest!, Tricia Hersey
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We Will Rest!
The Art of Escape

Author: Tricia Hersey

Series: Rest Is Resistance #2

Narrator: Tricia Hersey

Unabridged: 1 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/12/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems with this visionary guide from the author of the New York Times bestseller Rest Is Resistance
 
We don’t believe we are worthy of rest unless we burn ourselves out to accomplish it. Our thinking has been limited by disconnection, sleep deprivation, and the unattainable call for perfection. The systems will never give us rest. It is something we must create for ourselves and each other. 
 
Just as the North Star guided the enslaved on their journeys to freedom, visionary artist and founder of The Nap Ministry Tricia Hersey leads us to imagine a new world: one in which we subvert the narrative of productivity at all costs and embrace rest as a healing spiritual practice. 
 
Inspired by vintage hymnals, prayer books, and abolitionist pamphlets, We Will Rest! is a modern sacred object, medicine for a sick and exhausted world. Weaving together meditations and poetry with storytelling and powerful art, Hersey provokes liberation through refusal and trickster rebellion in the face of capitalism and white supremacy. 
 
There is another way. Focus on the escape. Focus on the transformation. We can just be. We are beautiful. We are enough. We are escape artists. We Will Rest!
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Have you ever noticed
when you ask for rest
the body becomes a holy trumpet
the walls come tumbling down?

Author Bio

Tricia Hersey is an artist, poet, theologian and community organiser. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organisation that examines rest as a form of resistance by curating sacred spaces for the community to rest via Collective Napping Experiences, immersive workshops, performance art installations and social media. Tricia is a global pioneer and originator of the movement to understand the liberating power of rest. She is the creator of the Rest is Resistance and Rest as Reparations frameworks. Her research interests include Black liberation theology, womanism, somatics and cultural trauma. Tricia is a Chicago native and currently lives in South Georgia.www.triciahersey.cominstagram.com/thenapministrytwitter.com/thenapministryfacebook.com/thenapministry

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