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Pleasure Activism

2019-03-19 Social Science
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Release : 2019-03-19
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Book Synopsis Pleasure Activism by : adrienne maree brown

Download or read book Pleasure Activism written by adrienne maree brown. This book was released on 2019-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde's invitation to use the erotic as power and Toni Cade Bambara's exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. Writers including Cara Page of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice, Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of This Body Is Not an Apology, and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—they create 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, brown launches a new series of the same name with this volume, bringing readers books that explore experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today. Books that find the opportunity in every crisis!

Emergent Strategy

2017-03-20 Social Science
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Release : 2017-03-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Emergent Strategy by : adrienne maree brown

Download or read book Emergent Strategy written by adrienne maree brown. This book was released on 2017-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.

A Pleasure in Words

1981 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 1981
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis A Pleasure in Words by : Eugene T. Maleska

Download or read book A Pleasure in Words written by Eugene T. Maleska. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pleasure

2008-04-01 Fiction
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Release : 2008-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Pleasure by : Eric Jerome Dickey

Download or read book Pleasure written by Eric Jerome Dickey. This book was released on 2008-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey, “one of the most successful Black authors of the last quarter-century”* explores the depths of desire in this sensual blockbuster. Born in Trinidad and living in Atlanta after a relationship gone bad, Nia Simone Bijou is an ambitious writer who has it all. Except for the one thing that'll give her the control she craves-and the power she deserves: absolute, uninhibited sexual satisfaction. Now, in the sweltering days and nights of summer, the heat is on. Nia's fantasies will become a reality-with man after man after man. She will shatter the limits of erotic love. She will open herself up to experiences she never dared before. And as her fantasies begin to spin out of control, she'll discover the unexpected price of the extreme. *The New York Times

How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

2010-06-14 Psychology
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Release : 2010-06-14
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by : Paul Bloom

Download or read book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like written by Paul Bloom. This book was released on 2010-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging, evocative…[Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling." —NPR Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and touch but by our beliefs about that thing’s history, origin, and deeper nature.

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