Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

by Tricia Hersey

Your body is a site of liberation. It doesn’t belong to capitalism. Love your body. Rest your body. Move your body. Hold your body.

Rest is a healing portal to our deepest selves. Rest is care. Rest is radical.

Rest is a form of resistance because it disrupts and pushes back against capitalism and white supremacy.

Grind culture has made us all human machines, willing and ready to donate our lives to a capitalist system that thrives by placing profits over people.

Rest is radical because it disrupts the lie that we are not doing enough. It shouts: “No, that is a lie. I am enough. I am worthy now and always because I am here.”