Virtual Social Justice Book Club
Meets First Thursdays of the month at 6pm on Zoom
Join us for monthly discussions of thought-provoking books through a social justice lens. Registrants will be encouraged to pursue positive actions to uplift their respective communities. Social Justice Book Club will recur throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please email Melissa Carr at carrm@mendocinocounty.org or call 707-234-2862 to sign up. All registrants will receive an email invite to participate via Zoom.
April's book is
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good written and gathered by adrienne maree brown.
"How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor Adrienne Maree Brown finds the answer in something she calls "pleasure activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together they cover a wide array of subjects -- from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs -- building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own."-- Provided by publisher.
