The Nap Ministry

The Nap Ministry We examine the liberating power of naps. The originator & creator of Rest Is Resistance framework. New Book: WE WILL REST!: The Art of Escape Out Now.

The Nap Ministry was founded in 2016 by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps. We engage with the power of performance art, site-specific installations, and community organizing to install sacred spaces for the community to rest together. Our Rest is Resistance theory has been embraced all over the globe. We facilitate immersive workshops, lecture on our rest as a liberation practice, and curate performance art that examines rest as a radical tool for community healing. We believe rest is a form of resistance and name sleep deprivation as a racial and social justice issue.

Just over here quietly writing and connecting and minding my business.First post from my new series: GET INTO IT: Pleasu...
11/07/2025

Just over here quietly writing and connecting and minding my business.

First post from my new series: GET INTO IT: Pleasure Edition. Coming bi-weekly every Friday on The Portal of Liberation.

A Care Club

❤️ Created some hope for myself.
11/05/2025

❤️ Created some hope for myself.

A Care Club

Y’all. I’ve entered the community and excited to write without ads, trolls, AI mania, doom and constant marketing. I ju...
11/03/2025

Y’all. I’ve entered the community and excited to write without ads, trolls, AI mania, doom and constant marketing. I just want to connect directly and write and experiment.

I’m there on the Notes function cracking jokes and musing with my favorite quotes, etc. and also writing the publication “The Portal of Liberation.” I’m new there and learning the platform slowly. Grateful for the opportunity to share. Grateful for your witness. Hope you will join me there.

Link here to peek around:

https://open.substack.com/pub/thenapministry

11/02/2025

1 more day!!! Tomorrow, Tuesday November 12th. It’s time. We Will Rest! The Art of Escape. I pray you will love it and view it as an object for healing and portal building.

We Will Rest! Link in bio for more info on tour dates and pre-orders.

11/01/2025

Live from the other side of liberation.

10/31/2025

My 2nd book! Medicine. Playful. Art Object. Care Manual. Inspired by vintage publishing: abolitionist pamphlets, prayer books, vintage hymnals. November 12th. Prepare your escape plans. Rest.

We are enough now.
We Will Rest!

10/30/2025

May you love and rest and flow so deeply that capitalism crumbles. May we burn the rubble to stay warm and toasty and rested.

Reposting this from 2021. I love when the artists are inspired by our rest message. Thank you Mr. Pigeons for this Black Embodiment.

10/29/2025

Sabbatical blues and WE WILL REST!

10/28/2025

Rest is not an offering to be placed on your menu of services. Rest is community.

10/27/2025

SunRa. Afrofuturism is a North Star for the framework of Rest is Resistance. I write about it in my first book. I leave breadcrumbs of this expansive world of imagination and future-casting as our way to subvert the systems that see us as human machines. We are enough now. We bend time when we rest. We receive downloads and freedom dream when we rest. We Will Rest.

If you want to deepen into the message of this Ministry, a slow research journey on Sun Ra and Afrofuturism would be a worthy project. You have a computer in your hand. Exit social media and research. Go slow. Daydream. Rest.

Via from:

10/26/2025

We Will Rest! The Art of Escape.

Our escape from grind culture is ours. Available in audio, hardback and ebook.

Animation by:

10/25/2025

I’m swooning. ❤️ Thank you

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On January 19th from 7-9 PM we continue our journey into our rest as we listen to Chapter 2, DREAM, of Tricia Hersey’s Rest is Resistance. Bring your blanket, mat, pillow and favorite dreaming tool. Tea will be served. Let us know you are coming at www.houseofthelorde.com/thereadingroom (linkinbio).

[Video Description: /Jenn Freeman changing out the hymn board to a quote from the , Rest is Resistance. When they are done the board reads “How can we dream ourselves free?” ]

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The Nap Ministry is a community organization that examines the liberating power of naps. We use the power of performance art, poetry, installation, public performance interventions and community art making to illuminate the artistic, spiritual and creative power of rest. It reimagines why rest is a form of resistance and shines a light on the issue of sleep deprivation as a justice issue. It is a counter narrative to the belief that we all are not doing enough and should be doing more. We are community centered. We are focused on radical self-care. Naps are a dream space that offers us a place to invent, create and heal. When we don’t nap, we miss out on precious creative time to hope and imagine. Hope is what will sustain us. Sleep will restore us.

The Nap Ministry hosts Collective Napping Experiences that allow the community to experience a safe space that has been curated for rest.