PAGES Pod- Volume XIII: Black Pleasure

PAGES the Reading Group presents Volume XIII: Black Pleasure

What is Black Pleasure? Is there such thing as too much pleasure? Is there a social relationship between shame and Black pleasure? What about pleasures that are racialized differently? How does Janelle Monae's album 'The Age of Pleasure' speak to these questions?

In this episode, @Nannearl_  and @Urfavfilosopher chop it up about Black Pleasure, hedonism, and Janelle Monae's latest album 'The Age of Pleasure'. Join us as our hosts explore Black pleasure and talk about how their own thinking about 'pleasure' has evolved over time.

Check out our reading list inspired by Janelle Monae's 'The Age of Pleasure' at the PAGES TRG bookshop!

Also, we want to hear from you! Let us know what you think about Black pleasure. What is your relationship to it? Has your relationship to Black pleasure changed over time? Get active in the comments or drop us a line to our email pagesthereadinggroup@gmail.com, with 'PAGES POD' in the subject line!

Mentioned this episode:

• PAGES Newsletter
• PAGES POD- Volume IX- Sad Love
• PAGES Bookshop

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Chapters

• 0:00 Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
• 0:25 Intro
• 4:00 Who aint heard of 'The Age of Pleasure'
• 4:17 Audience engagement
• 5:54 What is Black Pleasure
• 9:21 How did you understand pleasure when you were younger?
• 17:38 Who is the arbiter of pleasure
• 20:23 How does pleasure get interpreted socially?
• 23:06 Is there a such thing as too much pleasure?
• 28:56 What is Black Pleasure?
• 39:50 Where is Audre Lorde's voice in this discussion?
• 46:25 What does Janelle Monae's 'The Age of Pleasure' mean for this moment?
• 56:05 Black pleasure and embodiment
• 1:08:45 Outro