Rest is Resistance
The Candler Foundry
Course Information
Course Dates: April 17 - May 1, 2024
Course Time: Wednesdays 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM EDT (online)
Meeting ID: 954 7200 8630
Passcode: 591109
Course Description
What would it be like to live in a well-rested world?
Engage with the Rest is Resistance framework which is rooted in Black liberation theology, womanist theology. spirituality and a politics of refusal.
This course explores the tenets of The Nap Ministry and uplifts the following questions:
How can we be more human when capitalism attempts to degrade our divinity by viewing our bodies as mere machines?
How can we resist the constant pull of grind culture in our lives? How do we cooperate to craft a world in which all bodies can thrive? How do we rest in a culture that glorifies urgency and busyness? How do we dream ourselves free?
Scholarships are available for this course, please email us at candlerfoundry@emory.edu for more information.
For more information, please email our Coordinator of Courses in the Community, Damellys Sacriste, at candlerfoundry@emory.edu.
Access to Pitts Digital Essentials
Explore your theological questions
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Meet the Instructor
Tricia Hersey
Tricia Hersey has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is a Chicago native who has called Atlanta home for 12 years. Tricia is the founder of The Nap Ministry, the originator of the ‘rest as resistance’ and ‘rest as reparations’ frameworks, and creates sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Tricia’s work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism, and Black liberation theology, and is a guide for how to collectively deprogram, decolonize, and unravel ourselves from the wreckage of capitalism and white supremacy. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Eastern Illinois University and is an alumna of Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Tricia was the 2023 Artist-Scholar in Residence at the Center for Black Visual Culture at New York University. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto and The Nap Ministry’s Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture. You can learn more about her work at thenapministry.com
If you have any questions about the course, please feel free to contact Damellys Sacriste, at candlerfoundry@emory.edu.
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