Tricia Hersey

What she did

Founded The Nap Ministry and wrote Rest Is Resistance, connecting collective rest practices with criticism of racism and compulsory productivity.

Impact and significance

Her project made rest a subject of political and cultural organising. Its arguments about liberation are distinct from medical evidence about treating illness.

This is Matria’s interpretation, not a quotation or personalised advice.

Works recorded in the archive

• The Nap Ministry (founded 2016)
• Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (2022)

Sources and access

• The Nap Ministry. Our work has a framework: Rest Is Resistance!, 2021.

  Framework: Black liberation theology and womanism

• Hersey, Tricia. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. Little, Brown Spark, 2022.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.

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