Christy Lou

“Release the shame you feel when resting. It does not belong to you.”
― Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

“Take up space. Be risky in your observations. Be a maroon. Decide you ain’t ever going back to enslavement. Take a nap to receive a Word from your Ancestors. Be subversive. Embrace radical love that is outside the confines of tradition. Be suspicious of everything they taught you. Carry a research notebook. Be curious. Resist. Rest.”
― Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

“We are socialized into systems that cause us to conform and believe our worth is connected to how much we can produce. Our constant labor becomes a prison that allows us to be disembodied. We become easy for the systems to manipulate, disconnected from our power as divine beings and hopeless. We forget how to dream. This is how grind culture continues. We internalize the lies and in turn become agents of an unsustainable way of living.”
― Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

“The concept of laziness is a tool of the oppressor.”
― Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto