Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto — When Exhaustion Becomes a System
What if exhaustion is not merely a personal condition, but an operating requirement of systems that measure human worth by output?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates grind culture as a system that links human worth to productivity while normalizing exhaustion, constant availability, and disconnection from the body.
Hersey argues that capitalism and white supremacy have trained people to treat their bodies like machines. Drawing from Black liberation…
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