Your Body, Your Power: Quotes from Rest is Resistance That Hit Deep

Powerful Quotes from Rest is Resistance: Tenet 2: Our bodies are a site of liberation

What’s on the show: Journal prompt. Tenet 2 from Rest is resistance. Do you know what dehumanization is? Parents don’t want to buy community school supplies. Social media death threats.

Journal Prompt: Write this quote down as your affirmation statement. “We are meant to survive, and ultimately thrive, because we are divine.”

We have multiple parts to this series, so I am going to stop numbering them at this point.

These four tenets are:

1. Rest is a form of resistance because it disrupts and pushes back against capitalism and white supremacy.
2. Our bodies are a site of liberation.
3. Naps provide a portal to imagine, invent, and heal.
4. Our DreamSpace has been stolen, and we want it back. We will reclaim it via rest.

Tenet 2: Our bodies are a site of liberation

When I think of this second tenet, I think of how dehumanization is a prominent tool of oppression. It is a tool that allows for violence, genocide, and ruling over other living beings.

What is Dehumanization, Anyway?

Tricia Hersey Rest is Resistance Tenet 2 Qoutes

“When we finally wake up to the truth of what a machine-level pace of labor has done to our physical bodies, our self-esteem, and our Spirits, the unraveling begins.”

“We are wrapped up in a web that feels inescapable and hopeless. Will you trust me and trust your divinity enough to believe it is indeed not hopeless? Can you trust, even for a second that we can reside in a rested future?”

“The ongoing socialization and manipulation by the systems then become internalized, and we become the agents of grind culture”

“In order for a capitalist system to thrive, our false beliefs in productivity and labor must remain. We have internalized its teachings and become zombie-like in Spirit and exhausted in body. So we push ourselves and each other under the guise of being hyperproductive and efficient.”

SLOW DOWN

“We become rigid and impatient when our checklist isn’t completed to perfection. WE become less human and less secure. We believe we are only meant to survive and not thrive.”

“I clearly remember the moment it clicked for me how a capitalist, patriarchal, ableist, anti-Black system could never make space for the success I wanted for myself. The ‘success’ grind culture props up centers constant labor, material wealth, and overworking as a badge of honor. Resting is about the beginning process of undoing trauma so that we can thrive and evolve back to our natural state: a state of ease and rest.”

“We are meant to survive, and ultimately thrive, because we are divine.”

“Our everyday behaviours and false beliefs about productivity drive us into behaving in a robotic, machine-like way.”

“Liberation and oppression cannot occupy the same space.”

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