adrienne maree brown notes that “pleasure is a measure of freedom” and advocates “pleasure activism” not as an escape or spiritual bypass, but as a path toward personal and collective liberation. In a similar way, Shannon Willis encourages “disobedient joy” by which we “reject the narrative that fear should dictate our actions, that isolation is the price of survival.” Both visionaries try to help us realize that joy “reminds us that another world is possible.”
Rev. Kevin Tarsa, with Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate
