This book, that demands we reclaim our right to a fulfilling life seemed to embody the moment we were feeling and felt like a playful and strategic theoretical and practical tool to explore. 

Adrienne Maree Brown is an author and an activist and general freedom fighter. You can view her activities here, and we highly recommend you listen to this podcast on Pleasure Activism with her. 

She is basically our hero. 

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? Author and 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, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together they cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own.