Rest Is Resistance

A Manifesto

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Published Oct. 10, 2022 by Hachette B and Blackstone Publishing.

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978-0-316-36521-5
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overall, i found this to be really repetitive. i do think there were reflections and remembrances it prompted in me though - i forgot how i too ended up taking dance classes when i was a student, and i want to incorporate more dance into my life again. hersey didn't mention this necessarily (or maybe she did and i forgot it amongst the repetitivity?), but i was thinking about how i've been grinding doing chores at home as well as volunteering. i justified it because the world is on fire and it's not capitalism, right? but i'm in burn out, and trying to find sustainability, and maybe all that trying to put out fires that are hurting all these people around me while i have no water is not working. i'm also curious about the idea of doing a nap session at my workplace, where it's frowned upon …

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In a lot of ways best read as a kind of sermon on self-sovereignty, Rest is Resistance is a treatise on fighting back against grind culture and prioritizing your needs over the needs of the exploitative economic system you happen to live in. So many of these harmful ideas are baked into American culture; so much so that some of the pleas here might seem obvious to foreign ears. Nonetheless, we need more of this work, and I found this book to be both affirming and necessary.

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