A six-part email course featuring the best of Dr. Sami Schalk’s monthly Pleasure Practices column.
With everything going on in the world, it can be difficult to find joy from day to day. In Pleasure Practices, Dr. Sami Schalk shares how to be attentive to your needs, care for your inner child, and lean into moments of unabashed “yes” so you can create a life that excites you. You’ll read about food, onesies, and plants — and how we can practice pleasure as a means of emotional survival.
When you sign up for our Pleasure Practices email course, we’ll send you a select piece of Sami’s writing. Over the next six days, we’ll bring you great moments from a column that has serious things to say about healing, feeling, and capitalism — and does it all with defiant, unabashed joy.
About Sami
Sami Schalk is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Black Disability Politics (Duke University Press 2022) and Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, And Gender In Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Duke University Press 2018). Schalk is a fat Black queer disabled pleasure activist who loves fashion, cursing, and writing.
