Tricia Hersey

I'm not going to be the one you're going to get. And so because of that, I'm resting. I'm using rest as a vehicle to disrupt it, to disturb that idea, to push back. And so it really centers itself in history. I speak so much about

I'm not going to be the one you're going to get. And so because of that, I'm resting. I'm using rest as a vehicle to disrupt it, to disturb that idea, to push back. And so it really centers itself in history. I speak so much about

the historical lens of Harriet Tubman, of the maroons of North America, my ancestors who were jumping off slave ships and leaving plantations and hiding out in caves for 15 years, not fugitives, not runaways. They never were part of the system. They just never were. They were like in the system, what's happening around them, but they marooned and said, I'm not a part of it.

the historical lens of Harriet Tubman, of the maroons of North America, my ancestors who were jumping off slave ships and leaving plantations and hiding out in caves for 15 years, not fugitives, not runaways. They never were part of the system. They just never were. They were like in the system, what's happening around them, but they marooned and said, I'm not a part of it.

the historical lens of Harriet Tubman, of the maroons of North America, my ancestors who were jumping off slave ships and leaving plantations and hiding out in caves for 15 years, not fugitives, not runaways. They never were part of the system. They just never were. They were like in the system, what's happening around them, but they marooned and said, I'm not a part of it.

To be in a world, but not of it. And so when I think about that, those are the deep, between what capitalism was doing. And when you do more research around slavery, plantation labor, read slave narratives, learn about what was happening. I mean, it's unimaginable brutality. It's unimaginable violence. ideas that you would look at a divine body like that.

To be in a world, but not of it. And so when I think about that, those are the deep, between what capitalism was doing. And when you do more research around slavery, plantation labor, read slave narratives, learn about what was happening. I mean, it's unimaginable brutality. It's unimaginable violence. ideas that you would look at a divine body like that.

To be in a world, but not of it. And so when I think about that, those are the deep, between what capitalism was doing. And when you do more research around slavery, plantation labor, read slave narratives, learn about what was happening. I mean, it's unimaginable brutality. It's unimaginable violence. ideas that you would look at a divine body like that.

And so that's where the idea of reclaiming our bodies as our own, reclaiming our spirits to not be connected to a system that sees us like that. And so I refuse to donate my body to the system any longer. So I'm resting.

And so that's where the idea of reclaiming our bodies as our own, reclaiming our spirits to not be connected to a system that sees us like that. And so I refuse to donate my body to the system any longer. So I'm resting.

And so that's where the idea of reclaiming our bodies as our own, reclaiming our spirits to not be connected to a system that sees us like that. And so I refuse to donate my body to the system any longer. So I'm resting.

Like it is a direct line. Absolutely. We just need to make the connections. And I believe we can't make the connections for a lot of reasons. But one of the reasons is that we're exhausted out of our minds because And when you're exhausted and when you're on the grind and when you're trying to keep up with this unsustainable pace, there is no time to sit and make connections.

Like it is a direct line. Absolutely. We just need to make the connections. And I believe we can't make the connections for a lot of reasons. But one of the reasons is that we're exhausted out of our minds because And when you're exhausted and when you're on the grind and when you're trying to keep up with this unsustainable pace, there is no time to sit and make connections.

Like it is a direct line. Absolutely. We just need to make the connections. And I believe we can't make the connections for a lot of reasons. But one of the reasons is that we're exhausted out of our minds because And when you're exhausted and when you're on the grind and when you're trying to keep up with this unsustainable pace, there is no time to sit and make connections.

So when I started resting, when I first started the organization, I just started personally experimenting with rest. Like I would go to school on campus and I would just sleep on the quad all day. It became a moment where it was like, let the chips fall where they may. And I'm just going to come to school, get the attendance credit. But I'm dying from exhaustion right now.

So when I started resting, when I first started the organization, I just started personally experimenting with rest. Like I would go to school on campus and I would just sleep on the quad all day. It became a moment where it was like, let the chips fall where they may. And I'm just going to come to school, get the attendance credit. But I'm dying from exhaustion right now.

So when I started resting, when I first started the organization, I just started personally experimenting with rest. Like I would go to school on campus and I would just sleep on the quad all day. It became a moment where it was like, let the chips fall where they may. And I'm just going to come to school, get the attendance credit. But I'm dying from exhaustion right now.

And the more I started to do that, the more things made sense with my research. Things made sense with my life. I've started getting better grades. I can make connections between what I was seeing and what I was feeling, what I was doing, like this disembodied experience. disconnection that happens in our bodies. People think not resting is just, oh, I'll get to it later.

And the more I started to do that, the more things made sense with my research. Things made sense with my life. I've started getting better grades. I can make connections between what I was seeing and what I was feeling, what I was doing, like this disembodied experience. disconnection that happens in our bodies. People think not resting is just, oh, I'll get to it later.

And the more I started to do that, the more things made sense with my research. Things made sense with my life. I've started getting better grades. I can make connections between what I was seeing and what I was feeling, what I was doing, like this disembodied experience. disconnection that happens in our bodies. People think not resting is just, oh, I'll get to it later.