I definitely have people look at me when I start talking about the idea like, “So just pure debauchery, that’s what you’re saying. The definition of pleasure, as I use it, is about happiness, joy, contentment and satisfaction. "It is freedom." Colorlines spoke with brown about why self-love, healing and harm reduction are neccesary for collective liberation.
"Feeling good is not frivolous," brown writes. She also highlights the many ways that people of color, sex workers, disabled people and queer, trans and nonbinary people have been denied joy-and why we must center their pleasure as an organizing principle. For example, there are exercises in masturbating, taking nude selfies and consenting to sex with another person.
Throughout the book, "hot and heavy homework" assignments invite the reader to tap into the full spectrum of our erotic and emotional needs.
A self-proclaimed "pleasure activist," brown also channels her own journey, from her time as an organizer with the Harm Reduction Coalition, a sex columnist for Bitch Media, and as a queer Black woman discovering the joys of intimacy, sex and what she calls "radical drug use." "Pleasure Activism," which builds on brown's earlier book, " Emergent Strategy," includes essays, reflections, excerpts and poems from writers and activists such as Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler, Joan Morgan, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Sonya Renee Taylor. In her new book, “ Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good,” released today (February 26) by AK Press, she draws from Black feminist luminaries to teach us how embracing what brings us joy is central in organizing against oppression. But author, activist and doula adrienne maree brown says that we can still find hope and love amid the despair that surrounds us every day. You can also watch a recording of this and many more of our conversation events by searching for “CIIS Public Programs” on YouTube.Fighting multiple forms of state violence is exhausting, especially when considering the decay of our environment. It was recorded during a live online event on February 12, 2021. In this episode, CIIS professor and restorative justice expert sonya shah joins adrienne for a powerful and joyful conversation exploring how to tap into the full spectrum of our sensual desires and emotional needs while organizing for justice. Author, Black feminist, and social justice activist adrienne maree brown has been talking, writing, and celebrating the intersection of pleasure and activism since her much-lauded 2019 book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good.
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