Podcast Mentions
Pleasure Activism The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
adrienne maree brown
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? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "Pleasure Activism," a politics of healing a...
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10% Happier with Dan Harris
This book was discussed as the source for defining pleasure activism and listing practices for getting in touch with one's feelings.
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inside the book pleasure activism I list all these practices for starting to get back in touch with being able to feel yourself and notice what you're feeling
— Episode: You Don’t Have to be Miserable While Doi...
Episode: You Don’t Have to be Miserable While Doing Importa...
This book was discussed as the source for defining pleasure activism and listing practices for getting in touch with one's feelings.
"
inside the book pleasure activism I list all these practices for starting to get back in touch with being able to feel yourself and notice what you're feeling
Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
The book Pleasure Activism calls for making justice and liberation pleasurable experiences, arguing that pleasure is a measure of freedom.
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I mean, I want to make justice and liberation the most pleasurable experiences that we can have as a species.
— Episode: [Unedited] adrienne maree brown with Kri...
Episode: [Unedited] adrienne maree brown with Krista Tippet...
The book Pleasure Activism calls for making justice and liberation pleasurable experiences, arguing that pleasure is a measure of freedom.
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I mean, I want to make justice and liberation the most pleasurable experiences that we can have as a species.
I want to make it feel like, ah, when I make the best choice, it feels good.
And I know it from my bones up and out.
And I know that that means a deep reclamation, especially for those of us who have experienced oppression or trauma, that what gets taken from us often is the sense that we deserve pleasure, that we know how to feel it, that we're allowed to feel it.
So one of the things I say is pleasure is not a frivolous thing.
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