This year feels different – heavy, terrifying, enraging, yes – but instead of retreating, self-isolating and mourning, we are hungry for connection and community. We are taking stock of our resources. Some are limited, like our time on earth; others are boundless, like our capacity for giving and receiving love. How do we maximize and nurture goodness in the time we have right now?
Our 2025 Murmurations books are meant to guide us toward what matters, and help us recognize the quiet, mobilizing power of love in all its forms.
April 18: Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good a book by Adrienne Maree Brown
If you came to our Come As You Are conversation last fall, maybe you’ve been thinking differently about how to harness pleasure. Adrienne maree brown takes us further than what feels good – to how we can use our pursuit of pleasure (no strings, no fear) to move toward a more just and radical world.
About the book:
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.
Friday April 18th at Abide West at Willow Room Collective
15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood
Sliding Scale: Pay What you Wish $5 - $30
Bring a snack or drink to share!