ACTIVISM

Embodied activism is the art of reclaiming your pleasure as an act of revolution 

The protests and petitions are important. Challenging the racist, sexist, capitalist systems head on needs to be done.

So, let’s talk about how you live and feel inside your body when there is no money to be made from it, no standards of beauty or appearance challenging it, no other gaze judging or making assumptions about it.

Reclaiming your body as your own is living inside of a fluid and defiant form of activism. Taking the time to heal yourself through erotic, pleasurable, sensual forms lets you understand how to fully live in a body. It allows you to become a whole human being living in the world.

I wish to help you wake to this embodied activism.

You can find a list of many resources including literature, art and mental health assistance below. If you are interested in experiencing this embodied activism, please get in touch.

Community Resources for a Life of Activism

We must live a life of meaning to find true happiness. And in that, helping & understanding others is crucial. These are resources complied to aid in strengthening our community, undoing systems of oppression, honoring our earth, and building resiliency. We are stronger together.

Antiracism + Awareness + Abolition

LET’S CHANGE THINGS. NOW, HOW?

BLACK LIVES MATTER: Dismantle Systems of Oppression, Beyond Anti-Racism, Be a better ALLY, & Acknowledge Privilege & ACT.

BIPOC HUMANS – HOW ARE YOU?

ABOLITION

Cooking food & growing gardens = Resiliency

GET INVOLVED: FOOD + GROWING PROJECTS

Some of my favorite Black artists & organizations

Books, poetry, and movies

POETRY

  • Natasha Trethewey "Thrall" "Native Guard"

BOOKS

  • “Pleasure Activism” + “Emergent Strategy” by Adrienne Maree Brown

  • “Maps to Ecstasy” & “Sweat Your Prayers” by Gabrielle Roth

  • "Slavery by Another Name" by Douglas Blackmon

  • "Hood Feminism" by Mikki Kendall (intersectionality in the feminist movement)

  • "The City We Became" NK Jemisin (scifi)

  • "Children of Blood & Bone" Tomi Adeyemi

  • My Black Writer Book List - ever growing document of suggestions!

FILMS + DOCUMENATARIES

  • 13th (netflix)

  • Malcom X

(thanks to my cousins for helping me compile these)

Mental health resources (including movement)

CONTACT ME IF YOU’D LIKE TO ADD TO THE LIST

Thanks to Nicole Pemberton, Alana Christopher, AJ & Hannah Mattson, Amanda Davis, and ALL the organizations & individuals who have put time to put all these resource compilations together.