TRICIA HERSEY on Deprogramming from Grind Culture /318

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Guided by her new book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto and fervent calls for real, deep rest, this week returning guest Tricia Hersey joins Ayana to unwind the complicated ties of exhaustion and exploitation. Tricia’s words serve as incantations against the brainwashing of grind culture as she and Ayana investigate the systems that benefit from keeping us operating. Drawing deep inspiration from her ancestors, histories of marronage, and long standing traditions of Black resistance, Tricia le...

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0:54.0	Hello and welcome to For the Wild podcast. I'm Ayanna Young.
1:01.3	Today we are speaking with Trisha Hersey.
1:05.2	What I do is I lean on the past. I lean on my ancestors. I talk about that in the books so much.
1:11.6	I lean on the ideas of what they were doing and how they were able to
1:17.1	be in the system but not up and how they were able to still find joy and pleasure in
1:22.9	having family and still come up with inventive plans to escape.
1:27.3	Trisha Hersey is a Chicago native with over 20 years of experience as a multi-disciplinary
1:32.8	artist, writer, theologian, and community organizer. She is the founder of the map ministry,
1:39.6	an organization that examines a rest as a form of resistance and reparations
1:44.3	by curating spaces for the community to rest, be a community rest activations,
1:50.0	immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. Her research interests include
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