How Activists Organize Self Care and Collective Care?
From TCU Wiki
- Activists feel guilty for taking a break and selfish. They also feel this pressure from the network.
- Our notion of what is self-care makes us think its a certain group of things: yoga, meditation, shopping, etc This is enforced by social media, which has made it a multi-million industry.
- Many of us now think we can't afford it. However, we need to unpack what it means to self-care. Its individual prefernces and related to pleasure. In this context, women and LGTBQ groups have been denied pleasure. So what does this mean for us?
- Self-care can be just be hanging out with friends, spending time alone, really whatever brings you pleasure.
- Most of us have a hard time practicing self-care.
