rest

Rest is a health issue as well as a political issue. People, along with all animals, need adequate rest as a condition of survival and health. Women’s chronic utter exhaustion is a structural problem, not an individual failing. In societies where the human right to adequate rest and leisure are not fulfilled, women often live on the verge of collapse as a matter of course. Rest enables us to move toward true wellbeing, healing, and liberation. In the United States, Black women have articulated a vision of rest as resistance and as liberation from the long chains of slavery and capitalism.