The Kindred Collective at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and the NAACP hosted a beach party on Sunday.
The event, called "Flourish & Flow: A Black Joy Beach Party," was described by UCSB Department of Counseling lecturer Dr. Vivian Storm as an opportunity to show that "our rest is our resistance, our joy is justice."
Our rest is our resistance, our joy is justice. And, this is you know, liberation can take many forms.
Another attendee, Nolan, saw the event as a chance to rest, stating: "I think that we have been fighting the great fight, and we will continue to fight the great fight. But sometimes we just need a little rest."
This was the first inaugural Black Joy Beach Party, organized by the Gevirtz School of Education.
Author's summary: The Kindred Collective hosts a beach party celebrating Black joy.