05/11/2024
When you hop on a Live like the universe called us all in!
I cannot recommend the work of Tricia Hersey (The Nap Ministry) enough in the first place obviously but her Live yesterday was about the non-response of people right now to creating momentum about her book event, even though paid. Even though reminded.
It came from a place of genuine bafflement, there was no anger, asking her community for their own experiences and thoughts. The comments were fu***ng amazing honestly.
Post-pandemic unaddressed trauma coupled with capitalistic intensity from our work whatever it might be = overwhelm and as Hersey put it, “feeling cooked”.
Listening to someone play with ideas and mull them over, turn them over out loud in real time with a genuine openness and curiosity just doesn’t happen enough.
Yeah I’m honoured TH picked out my comment but I recorded it to see if this calls to anyone else.
“lastminute interest is real, like preparing and planning aren’t possible right now”
On a small biz level, people not signing up for/buying things is real. Creating our own hibernaculae (where animals overwinter) in an overpriced & underpaid living crisis is real. Us all working hard is real. Feeling on the back foot is real.
It is not for lack of effort, purpose or belief on your part. So I wanted to send goodwill and reassurance because these things need to be brought into the open and not reduced to ‘you’re not trying hard enough’. I see you, I feel you!
Also Hersey’s book looks damn beautiful 💜 She says she wants people to turn it round, play with it, dip in, dip out. The page she’s revealed so far says “If the enslaved could believe, I know I can” (Nikki Giovanni)
It’s out in December in the UK and pre-orders help authors a tonne and a Bunhead bakery bun, hun, so I’ve popped our Bookshop link in our bio. All commission goes to charity.
Much love and solidarity,
Emma x
