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Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto Kindle Edition

by Tricia Hersey (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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***INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***

Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy. In this book, Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice.

What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies and minds to work at an unrealistic, damaging, and machine‑level pace –– feeding into the same engine that enslaved millions into brutal labor for its own relentless benefit.


In Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey, aka the Nap Bishop, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us. Rest, in its simplest form, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. We are enough. The systems cannot have us.


Rest Is Resistance is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. With captivating storytelling and practical advice, all delivered in Hersey’s lyrical voice and informed by her deep experience in theology, activism, and performance art, Rest Is Resistance is a call to action, a battle cry, a field guide, and a manifesto for all of us who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture.

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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., New York Times bestselling author"

About the Author

Tricia Hersey is an artist, theater maker, spiritual director, theologian, and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance by curating safe spaces for the community to rest via Collective Napping Experiences, immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. Her research interests include black liberation theology, womanism, somatics, and cultural trauma. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Eastern Illinois University and a Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Tricia's work has been seen with Chicago Public Schools, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, United States Peace Corps, Google Global, and universities and organizations nationwide and internationally.

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Tricia Hersey is a Chicago native with over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance and reparations by curating spaces for the community to rest via community rest activations, immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. Her research interests include Black liberation theology, womanism, somatics, and cultural trauma. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Rest is Resistance which published in October 2022. You can learn more about her work at thenapministry.com

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🎤 CHECK 1,2 1,2... just testing this thing out. Where do I start with this delicately weaved word map to liberation-- the title; a simple statement, a hard fact to accept, Rest IS Resistance... & then to be followed up with; A Manifesto, hello world do we really know what this means for us?Tricia's words throughout this declaration of necessities, gives BIG "shawty's like a melody in my head" ENERGY!! We Will Rest... while I've been a committed member of the mission since 2017, my spirit was still captured with her detailing personal events that brought her to manifesting this now reality. I will Rest for you (oh God real tears have joined the review).I was born not only into a world who equates your value to your productivity but also a family who's suffered for trying to keep up in this rat race. God really did a BIG ONE by introducing me to The Nap Ministry, The Bishop & Rest is Resistance. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book & the mission to all, no matter the age race or belief system. There is an unexplainable joy felt when you start to reclaim your time & body and I pray that you will.Slow Down 💛 Devour this read.
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Monica
5.0 out of 5 stars A needed reminder that I don't have to earn rest.
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024
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I loved this book. I truly gave me a needed perspective shift and I look forward to embracing rest in my day to day.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Balm and Guide for the Weary
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2023
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In Rest is Resistance, The Nap Bishop (Tricia Hersey) has crafted something truly revolutionary, with a tenderness that belies it’s powerful message.
The poetry of her words, many repeated throughout the book like a refrain, act as a lullaby that passes through the layers of armor we have all built up through our conditioning and fights for survival in the violent landscape of late-stage, white supremacist capitalism. As she repeats throughout the book, “We will rest!” you begin to believe there truly is another way. And just as you wonder how you as an individual could possibly create space to rest in a world that, for most, demands your constant time and attention to meet your basic needs, she gives suggestions, provides inspiration and hope from her own experience and those who have been leading the revolution for centuries.
Beautifully written, powerfully delivered, and every bit as revolutionary as the work of her mentors and predecessors. Read this book SLOWLY, and allow it to change you from the inside.
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A. Harper
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant. Rest is Afrofuturism.
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2024
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This book really resonated with me. Tricia is an Afrofuturist and 'the future is rest' is the key to liberation.

Slow down and enter "DreamSpace" for collective liberation is her mantra, drawn from Black elders and ancestors.
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Marcella
4.0 out of 5 stars Happy with purchase
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024
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Received package in excellent condition. I have not read the book yet due to my long book list that I'm currently finishing. Will give an update after I read the book.
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JJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2022
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I got this book and read 95 pages the first day. I’m a big fan of Tricia Hersey’s and her teachings and it was a blessing to experience more of her ideas in this book. I got to know more about her life and why she does what she does. I also love that she doesn’t shy away from being honest about our country and how it’s treated Black people as well as anyone who has been disadvantaged in some way. She’s real and raw, frequently gives reverence to the Ancestors and offers simple ways for us all to get more rest. But there is something unique about this book, it’s not lofty or super academic, rather it’s simple, to the point, dreamy and poetic. I love how she writes about the relationship between her and her grandmother Ora, it makes me think back to my beautiful relationship with my own grandmother. This is a book that I would like to read over and over again, continuing to glean insight, from a freedom fighter. I say freedom fighter , because it takes a lot to stand up and go against the status quo, and for that I thank Tricia for putting herself out there in the face of a lot of pushback. I also plan to get the audiobook for a different experience of the book. Highly recommend.
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S A C
5.0 out of 5 stars Needed Work!
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024
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I loved everything about this manifesto. This work is necessary and monumental. May we all get free from the grind.
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Haim Miah
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024
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Great book, progressive ideas
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M. Lee
3.0 out of 5 stars Insightful but not the balm for my soul that I was expecting
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024
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This book contains some beautiful lines and stories, and is a work of art, however, was not the soothing, sweet balm for the soul that I thought it would be. A forewarning. Who is her intended audience, and how does she want us to feel? As a reader, I feel heavy afterwards and actually more tired. She seems to be stuck on the horrors of the past, which are brought up again and again and again. How can she truly experience peace and rest if continually dwelling upon slavery, segregation, white supremacy, and the evils of capitalism? Our country was built by people from so many walks of life, a fact that is not addressed in this book. Additionally, some other European countries running on capitalism enjoy a slower pace of living than ours. Must rest be framed then as “resistance” to capitalism? Is it not possible to live within capitalism and be at a slower, more leisurely and pleasurable pace? I look towards Italy and France where more people are thriving.
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Wendell MacKinnon
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading
Reviewed in Canada on April 17, 2024
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Great ideas.
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Kirsten
5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary
Reviewed in Australia on October 29, 2023
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Sublimely written, wonderfully readable, mind blowing.
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Henry Troup
4.0 out of 5 stars I got a lot out this
Reviewed in Canada on February 19, 2024
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Even though I am a white Canadian, I do identify with the problem of "grind culture" and this book has made me more willing to put my own needs forward
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