Christine Gabrièlle

adrienne maree brown’s keys to consent-based pleasure: Self-Awareness – “It is a gift to be in touch with your own desire, to know when you do and don’t want something… The first step of consent is tuning into your own desire, being able to feel a distinct yes or no in your system.” (p.197) Oh,…

This piece is a short conversation between adriennce maree brown (“amb” below) and Ingrid LaFleur. Per Ingrid’s website, she is a “curator, design innovationist, pleasure activist and Afrofuturist committed to exploring and implementing forward-thinking solutions across multidisciplinary industries including but not limited to art, technology, education, social enterprise, and finance.” amb. What is your pleasure…

This post is quote-heavy. There were so many great sequences of thought that I couldn’t split up. I was screaming “Yes! YES!!” every few lines. Even sent a voice note to a friend. I tried really hard not to read the entire piece to my friend in that voice note, and I tried really hard…

A Question: How would we organize and move our communities if we shifted to focus on what we long for and love rather than what we are negatively reacting to? (p.23) This is such an important question, both for the wider community (whichever communities you are part of) and for us individually. When I was…

I’m just going to get into the parts that stood out for me. Here we go… What is Pleasure Activism? “Pleasure is a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment.” (p.13) “Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.”…

Okay, so BOOM! No, but seriously, I have been reading Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good for about a month and it’s been a slow read—mostly because I’ve been neglecting my reading time. BUT I’ve been doing better this past week, and I finally transcribed the notes I’d put into my voice recorder app…