Cancel culture addresses real harm… and sometimes causes more. It's time to think this through.
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.

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adrienne maree brown is the author of Holding Change; Changing Worlds; Emergent Strategy; co-editor of Octavia's Brood; cohost of podcasts "How to Survive the End of the World" and "Octavia's Parables"; and founder of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute. We Will Not Cancel Us is part of the Emergent Strategy Series.

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Format	Paperback
Pages	280
Year Published	2020
Series	Emergent Strategy

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