Writer, artist Tricia Hersey to give annual MLK lecture
By Ben Badua Student and Campus Life
Writer, multidisciplinary artist and theologian Tricia Hersey will speak on “Rest Is Resistance” at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in Sage Chapel.
The author of the New York Times bestselling book “Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto,” “The Nap Ministry’s Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture” and “We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape,” Hersey’s work studies the ways in which rest and imagination are intertwined with higher purpose and resistance.
“This year, our committee knew that we needed a speaker who could hold space for our students who are navigating grief and loss, experiencing emotional burnout and mental health crises and struggling to show up for themselves and for others,” said Drew Aliyah Valentine, a planning committee member and a diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging student support specialist with the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. “Tricia Hersey’s ‘Rest is Resistance’ framework is rooted in community care, ritual, self-reflection, artistic expression and other ancestral practices that our communities use to survive.”