Audre Lorde taught us the importance of caring for ... She was not advocating for self-care as an excuse for apathy, retreat into self-absorption, or convenient distractions.

There is a well-known quote by the feminist educator, activist and poet Audre Lorde that appears in her 1988 essay collection A Burst of Light: "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence ...

self-care, community care, and solidarity, as well as the uses of anger and the erotic. Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Survival Is a ...

Significantly, Audre Lorde understood the meaning of our interconnectedness ... And in light of that, I think we need to take ...

Image Audre Lorde in her home study on Staten Island ... And yet this powerful notion of self-determination became popularized as self-care, denatured to mean splurging on facials and binging ...

In a Rolling Stone cover story, Lorde discussed her struggles with an eating disorder and how overcoming it helped her make ...

Audre Lorde—first of her name ... because the transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger." 26.

“Neither of us has forever,” Alexis Pauline Gumbs quotes Audre Lorde in her expansive biography of the prolific, Harlem-born poet and essayist. Lorde wrote this in a letter to Pat ...