We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape
By (Author) Tricia Hersey
Illustrated by George McCalman
Little, Brown & Company
Little, Brown & Company
10th December 2024
12th December 2024
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Assertiveness, motivation, self-esteem and positive mental attitude
Coping with / advice about sleep problems
Gift books
155.2
Physical Properties
Hardback
160
Width 132mm, Height 184mm, Spine 18mm
340g
Description
Escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems with this visionary guide from the author of the New York Times bestseller Rest Is Resistance
We don't believe we are worthy of rest unless we burn ourselves out to accomplish it. Our thinking has been limited by disconnection, sleep deprivation, and the unattainable call for perfection. The systems will never give us rest. It is something we must create for ourselves and each other. Just as the North Star guided the enslaved on their journeys to freedom, visionary artist and founder of The Nap Ministry Tricia Hersey leads us to imagine a new world: one in which we subvert the narrative of productivity at all costs and embrace rest as a healing spiritual practice. Inspired by vintage hymnals, prayer books, and abolitionist pamphlets, We Will Rest! is a modern sacred object, medicine for a sick and exhausted world. Weaving together meditations and poetry with storytelling and powerful art, Hersey provokes liberation through refusal and trickster rebellion in the face of capitalism and white supremacy. There is another way. Focus on the escape. Focus on the transformation. We can just be. We are beautiful. We are enough. We are escape artists. We Will Rest! *** Have you ever noticedwhen you ask for restthe body becomes a holy trumpetthe walls come tumbling downAuthor Bio
Tricia Hersey is a multidisciplinary artist, theologian and founder of The Nap Ministry. She is the originator of the '"rest as resistance" and "rest as reparations" frameworks, and collaborates with communities all over the world to create sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Tricia's work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, afrofuturism, womanism, and liberation theology. She is a Chicago native who believes in daydreaming, porch sitting and poetry.
