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Pleasure Activism
- The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)
- Narrated by: Adrienne Maree Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
The New York Times best seller from AK Press is now an audiobook — read by Adrienne Maree Brown herself!
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.
Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, Adrienne brings her audience experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today.
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- A. Donkor
- 07-02-21
Pretty incredible
Yep that’s it... pretty incredible...
It’s a book to listen to and come back to and think on and feel on x
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- BAKITA:KK
- 16-04-21
Spectacular
Wonderful words and reflections. This book wncouraged reflection in such a joy filled way, and it explores pleasure in the widest sense. so well read too - so engaging.
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- Kristina
- 25-01-23
Wonderful writing!
What a pleasure of a book!! Lit up my world and reaffirmed so many feeling 😊
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- Lorna
- 16-04-22
power in pleasure
I want AMB to be my friend! I feel as though Adrienne has given me permission to seek out and explore pleasure, in all its forms and, importantly, to use it as a form of power. I thank her for that.
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- tamara
- 16-03-22
An invitation to learn how to feel good
The strength is this book lies in the variety of content presented to serve many. Brown as a narrator is playful, earnest, loving and respectful. The audio version has sweet pockets of song and serenity in it. I learned that pleasure is a politik, and how essential it is to build your own manifesto. This is taught through boundaries, self mastery, community, limitations and experimentation. The book is part research, part interviews and part anecdotes. All important to helping inform the healing power of pleasure for our nervous systems.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-05-22
Loved it
This is the type of book I will read/hear 3 or 4 times. it really helped me start working on my body image and my relationship to pleasure.
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- Katrina
- 11-01-23
Best audiobook ✨
The best audiobook I’ve ever listened to! This book has changed the way I view pleasure and has taught me to love myself more as a queer person.
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