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

3.0

Honestly, it felt very repetitive and surface level. It would introduce a topic in an interesting way, include an essay that got a bit more into it, but then no new ground was covered, we'd just get a personal anecdote that reiterated the surface level point. It also felt like a lot of it wasn't about activism, more radical selflove-- which is good! I love radical self-love! It's just not what I thought I was reading. Most of what I got from it was "Explore and listen to yourself, drugs can be a force for good, nonmonogamy can be ethical, love is powerful" with a little more depth in how to love yourself as a sexual being. Which is all good and fun, but for a 440 page book that proposes to be focused on activism, I'm disappointed. If it was a self-love or anticapitalist self-help book, this might be rated higher, because it succeeded more at that.