“Through mantras, meditations, and stories, WE WILL REST! The Art of Escape affirms that we are enough, that we deserve justice, and that we must imagine—and build—a liberated future through rest.”
Relax & chill while learning about the practice of resting at Semicolon Books!
*This event will be located at our Mag Mile location, 400 N Michigan Ave, Chicago Illinois Suit 100
About the book:
WE WILL REST! The Art of Escape teaches us how to escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems with this visionary guide from the author of the New York Times INSTANT bestseller Rest Is Resistance
. WE WILL REST! asks and answers the question: How do you find rest in a Capitalist, White Supremacist, Patriarchal, Abeleist System? And, this book – really, a piece of art – invites us all to develop, discover and experiment with our own liberation as we answer this question.
Rest is a spiritual practice – as well as a racial justice and a social justice issue – to combat capitalism and white supremacy. This is one of the first books to provide readers with healing meditations, poetry, and stories on this important topic. Tricia is the founder of The Nap Ministry and is known as The Nap Bishop. She conceived and executed the first of more than 100 Collective Napping Experiences in May 2017 and there are now immersive workshops, a Resurrect Rest School, public art and museum installations, lectures, and a combined social media following of over 400,000 engaged followers.
About the author
Tricia Hersey is a multidisciplinary artist, theologian, escape artist and founder of The Nap Ministry. She is the global pioneer and originator of the “rest as resistance” and “rest as reparations” frameworks, and collaborates with communities all over the world to create sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Tricia’s work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism, and liberation theology. She is a Chicago native who believes in daydreaming, porch sitting, and poetry.