Tricia Hersey is an artist, poet, theologian and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance by curating sacred spaces for the community to rest via Collective Napping Experiences, immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. Tricia is a global pioneer and originator of the movement to understand the liberatory power of rest. She is the creator of the Rest is Resistance and Rest as Reparations frameworks. Her research interests include Black liberation theology, womanism, somatics, and cultural trauma. Tricia is a Chicago native and currently lives in South Georgia.
Narrating her own work, Hersey makes the most of her experience as
a poet, infusing her words with a driving cadence tempered by her
compassion for the suffering that she sees around her...Hersey's
thoughtful championing of rest and resistance makes an
impact.--Sarah Hashimoto, Library Journal
"[A] thought-provoking manifesto against 'hustle
culture'"--News@Northeastern
"Rest Is Resistance connects the dots between capitalism and
white supremacy. Rest, Hersey posits, asserts humanity and pushes
back against all-consuming grind culture."--TIME
"extremely important and brilliant work... [Hersey] is a
revolution"--Glennon Doyle
"[Rest Is Resistance] teaches readers that rest is an
essential tool in reclaiming power and resisting systemic
oppression"--Afro News
"[Hersey] is an artist at heart...She approaches the notion of
collective rest as a form of performance art, incorporating
elements of Black liberation theology, Afrofuturism and poetry into
her messaging."--The New York Times
"A plan of action to help people challenge the idea that our bodies
are machines to be used for capitalism's profit as opposed to truly
belonging to us"--Essence
"A stunning call to a slower, richer life of faith"--Sojourner
"Get the book and then read, nap, rest, relax and repeat"--Ms.
Magazine
"In a culture that often seems obsessed with output, Hersey is more
focused on the inner calm and self-knowledge that can come with
proper rest...and on investigating who has traditionally been
denied that rest and its myriad benefits."--Vogue
"Exquisitely beautiful...a book to read and reread with a pen in
hand and pad beside you; one that you will find yourself wanting to
give to friends, coworkers, and strangers." --BookPage
"Hersey's ministry background shines through in her passionate and
eloquent arguments that read like a clear-eyed sermon... the
provocative message will appeal to those tired of grind
culture."--Publishers Weekly
"Rest Is Resistance" is a clarion call for our generation.
In this pioneering book, Tricia Hersey invites us all to opt out of
"grind culture" and embrace our basic and sacred human right to
self-care, relaxation, and rest. As Hersey makes clear, this
revolutionary praxis is especially important for Black people who
have historically and contemporarily been primarily valued for our
labor. Ultimately, Hersey reminds us that leisure is not only a way
to restore and rejuvenate, but it is also an act of resistance as
we hurtle towards end-stage capitalism."--Bryant Terry, James Beard
and NAACP Image award-winning author of Black Food and
Editor-in-Chief of 4 Color Books
"Lay your ass down and read this book right now! Rest Is
Resistance is an inspiring, affirming and revolutionary balm.
Tricia and the Nap Ministry's ethos have changed my life, and work,
for the better and this manifesto is no different. With
compassionate inquiry and actionable offerings, Tricia divinely
guides us further into rest, ourselves, and our collective
liberation."--Rachel Ricketts, spiritual activist and author of Do
Better
"Over the span of several days, I read Rest Is Resistance as
a meditative practice to alter my pace and ground my soul in this
frenzied grind culture. Unlike other texts that list a litany of
strategies to stave off exhaustion, Hersey presents a lullaby of
liberation that frames rest as a portal for healing and imagination
available to all. Once you open this book prepare to breathe more
deeply and come to see the world more clearly. In the words of the
Nap Bishop, 'The Doors of the Nap Temple are open. Won't you
come?'"--Gregory C. Ellison II, Ph.D., Founder of Fearless
Dialogues and Associate Professor at Emory University's Candler
School of Theology
"This book will save lives and transform the world. Tricia Hersey
speaks the truth about rest, a truth that begins our unraveling
from the lies of white supremacy and capitalism. Gradually we
refuse to live at a machine pace. We surrender to the beautiful
experiment of being human. We return to our truest selves. This is
a book to read again and again, slowly, savoring it sentence by
sentence. I'll be giving copies to everyone I work with and
everyone I love."--Emily Nagoski Ph.D., Bestselling author of Come
As You Are and Burnout
"Tricia Hersey whispers 'rest is a form of resistance' to me, to
you, to those who think resistance is always movement. Her message
is essential: Sit. Lay down. Slow down. Rest is a necessary step in
reclaiming our power to resist systemic oppression."--Ibram X.
Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the
Beginning
"Rest Is Resistance left me feeling elated. This book
reminds us that we are in charge of our restoration. In these
pages, Tricia has offered us an invitation to take our power
back." --Alexandra Elle, author of After the Rain and How We
Heal
"If the rude stillness of rest is a sermon, Tricia Hersey is its
underground prophet. Tricia's fierce insistence that rest is
resistance is more than a plea for us to take occasional vacations,
and nothing less than a spell masterfully crafted to evacuate us
from the settlement politics of capture. Read this book. Then
sleep, irreverently, knowing you shake worlds as you do." --Bayo
Akomolafe, Ph.D., author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters
to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home
"Sometimes the window is open and a breeze comes through singing a
sweet song: it is nap time. Grandmother sits on the front porch;
grandpapa cuts the grass. It is a song. You nap. I nap. The angels
hug us. A book settles beside us. Rest Is Resistance. It is
a war we will win."--Nikki Giovanni, Poet
"Tricia Hersey's Nap Ministry changed my life. Rest Is
Resistance is more than a book -- it is one of the most vital
interventions of our time."--Casey Gerald, author of There Will Be
No Miracles Here
"Vivid, deeply researched and moving... Hersey's manifesto towards
radical restoration is lifegiving"--Glory Edim, author of On
Girlhood and Well-Read Black Girl
"With Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey helps us understand
that rest is how we can sustain ourselves as we awaken to the truth
of the toxic systems of our times. She is not ahead of or above us
in this journey, but right here in the midst of social media
addiction and overwork and systemic frustration, shouting that she
can see an opening. She offers us rest not instead of the
incredible work we are doing, but as a way to undergird all our
efforts against capitalism and white supremacy. She shows us that
our dream space is sacred, and rest is how we reclaim access to the
wisdom there. Naps and all kinds of rest are portals through which
we return to ourselves. Tricia, sounding like an ancestor who is
DONE seeing us suffer, is inviting us to join her and step on
through."--adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy and
Pleasure Activism
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