Come witness radical rest as Tricia Hersey performs the ritual of rest in the bedroom of Jane Addams. This event on Sunday, September 17th, noon-1 pm is the launch of the Jane Addams Bedroom Project.

Hersey is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance and reparations. Hersey will also be reading from her New York Times bestselling Book, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. 

Following the event, UIC community members could sign up to nap in Jane Addams’s bedroom throughout the fall of 2023.

About Tricia Hersey

Tricia Hersey has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is a Chicago native who has called Atlanta home for 12 years. Tricia creates sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Her work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism, and liberation theology, and is a guide for how to collectively deprogram, decolonize, and unravel ourselves from the wreckage of capitalism and white supremacy. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Eastern Illinois University and a Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.