"This year, our committee knew that we needed a speaker who could hold space for our students who are navigating grief and loss, experiencing emotional burnout and mental health crises and struggling to show up for themselves and for others,"
"Tricia Hersey's 'Rest is Resistance' framework is rooted in community care, ritual, self-reflection, artistic expression and other ancestral practices that our communities use to survive."
Tricia Hersey, a writer, multidisciplinary artist and theologian, will present "Rest Is Resistance" at the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in Sage Chapel. Hersey authored the New York Times bestseller Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto, The Nap Ministry's Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture and We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape. Her work connects rest and imagination with higher purpose and resistance. Organizers sought a presenter to support students facing grief, burnout and mental health crises. Hersey founded the Nap Ministry in 2016 to curate performance art and immersive workshops that examine rest as a tool for community healing, and developed the Rest is Resistance and Rest as Reparations frameworks. The Nap Ministry installs communal nap spaces in parks, studios, galleries, living rooms and community organizations, and hosts workshops focused on creating nap rituals that utilize text and music.
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