We Will Rest! - The Art of Escape

"Give the gift of rest and escape with this exquisitely designed volume of inspiring writings by Tricia Hersey, powerfully illustrated by award-winning designer George McCalman and featuring a silk ribbon marker. 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. We Will Rest! is a modern sacred object, medicine for a sick and exhausted world. Weaving together meditations and poetry with storytelling and 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!"--

About the author

Tricia Hersey is a multidisciplinary artist, theologian, escape artist and founder of The Nap Ministry. She is the global pioneer and 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.

Summary

A full-colour gift book from the author of the New York Times bestseller Rest Is Resistance, featuring meditations, poems, and stories highlighting rest as a form of resistance and as a divine right

Product details

• Authors: Tricia Hersey
• Assisted by: George McCalman (Illustration)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2024
• EAN: 9780316365550
• ISBN: 978-0-316-36555-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 184 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: 4/c illustrations run through w/ text
• Series: Rest Is Resistance
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational, Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem, Sleep disorders & therapy, HEALTH & FITNESS / Sleep, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, Gift books, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Coping with / advice about sleep problems, Gift and novelty books / items