Bibliotherapy: Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
I heard about this book from others in my Open Floor Community. It was unlike any book that I had ever read, a mixture of gathered interviews, essays, poems, and autobiographical musings by brown. It was odd, powerful, and thought provoking.
brown defines pleasure activism as “the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy, and satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusions, and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy.
asserts that we all need and deserve pleasure
seeks to understand and learn from the politics and power dynamics inside of everything that makes us feel good
sex, the erotic, drugs, fashion, humor, passion work, connection, reading, cooking and/or eating, music, and other arts…
by tapping into potential goodness in each of us we can generate justice and liberation, growing a healing abundance where we have been socialized to believe only scarcity exists.”
Pleasure is a life-enriching, natural, safe, and a liberated part of life. Our bodies are miracles, magic, and should be celebrated. This book explores many of the ways in which we have been socialized and marginalized, and how accessing and practicing pleasure is a road to liberation and freedom. When is the last time you felt true pleasure?
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