Day 15 Pleasure Activism 30 Days of Racial and Disabled Justice

What is Pleasure Activism? 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?

Pleasure activism asserts that we all need and deserve pleasure and that our social structures must reflect this. In this moment, we must prioritize the pleasure of those most impacted by oppression.

Pleasure is a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment. Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society. Pleasure activism is the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy, and satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusions, and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy.

Source: adrienne maree brown

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FURTHER READING

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown (Author)

https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html