"I think all of these things are working to get us back to our full selves and
back to who we are: divine human beings. That's one of the central ideas of the
Nap Ministry: you are not a machine, you are a divine human being. If you knew
your divinity, you would not be grinding. You would not allow for grind culture.
You wouldn't allow yourself to miss sleep. If you saw yourself deeply as who you
are, you would see the divinity that I see in all people and what drives the
work of Nap Ministry. [The Nap Ministry is] for all, but it's a global movement
from a Black lens."
In 2016 Tricia Hersey founded The Nap Ministry. It challenges our notions of
laziness and reframes rest as resistance and a form of reparations.
