Tricia Hersey
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Tricia Hersey is a Chicago native with over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance and reparations by curating spaces for the community to rest via community rest activations, immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. She is the creator of the Rest is Resistance and Rest as Reparations frameworks. Tricia is a global pioneer and originator of the movement to understand the liberatory power of rest. Her research interests include Black liberation theology, womanism, somatics, and cultural trauma. Tricia currently lives in South Georgia.
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto