#WeWillRest: Dismantling Racial and Gender Injustice Through Personal and Professional Possibilities of Stillness in the Midst of Grind Culture

• In Event: #WeWillRest: Dismantling Racial and Gender Injustice Through Personal and Professional Possibilities of Stillness in the Midst of Grind Culture

Abstract

Guided by Tricia Hersey's groundbreaking manifesto, Rest is Resistance, this panel of Black scholars/educators/activists presents interpretive and actualized frameworks for stillness, silence, dreaming, breathing, and being within the manic pace of academia. Noting Hersey's idea that rest is a politics of opposition in a white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist society, the panelists share their inquiries into automated resistances to rest in addition to their evolutionary embracings of rest. Using critical/creative autobiographical and narrative stances to explore relationships to rest and invocations to share communal commitments to rest, panelists share a vision for a restful Black future and possibilities for peaceful productivity and unproductivity.

Author

• Janice A. Byrd, Pennsylvania State University