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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

pleoniesmith's review

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2.0

Disjointed essay collection.

alexture's review

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I thought this was a book about making activism positive instead of constant discourse and miserabilism. Turns out it's about feeling sexy, and even when it's not about sex, the sex imagery is pervasive in the writing (as in, thinking about politics is "foreplay" before liberation, or whatever).

I should have read the reviews first, this just isn't what I wanted to learn about.

This is probably a good book, but being lied to in the summary makes me really frustrated.

mika3's review against another edition

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it's all sex to her. didn't want to read a book that's only about sex. where's the activism?

stuhlsatzg's review

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slow-paced

3.0

I liked a lot of the essays, but most of them were from a series the author had in Bitch magazine. The interviews didn’t add much, but some of the selected works were really good!

jwelchreads's review

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challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

llbeez's review

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challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

kliffcord67's review

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Libby expired 

marinbell's review

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hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

brigidm's review

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective

4.0

laurenbmarshall's review

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0