According to proponents of radical self-care, traditional self-care is driven by consumerism and individualism. Audre Lorde wrote about radical self-care in 1988 as an act that coincides with ...

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.

"Shouting ‘self-care’ at people who actually need community care is how we fail people" — Nakita Valerio, Community Organizer, in a viral Facebook post after the 2019 terrorist attack in New ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the third chapter of “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre ... of Lorde’s poems. It often reads like a collection of essays intended to continue Lorde’s own project of self ...