Audre Lorde, self-care and its roots in Black history | MHT
Oct 27, 2021 · For Audre Lorde, honouring herself through self-care as a Black, queer woman was a vital part in sustaining her work as an activist whilst simultaneously seeing it as an extension of that very same activism.
Reclaiming Audre Lorde’s Radical Self-Care - Refinery29
May 28, 2021 · When Audre Lorde first wrote about self-care in her 1988 essay collection A Burst of Light, the activist and poet was battling cancer while still doing work that continues to inform and...
12 Audre Lorde Quotes About Self Care and Speaking Up
Jan 8, 2019 · Here are some of Audre Lorde's most inspiring quotes, including some from her last book, Sister Outsider, about speaking out, self care, and more.
A History of Self-Care - Slate Magazine
Apr 5, 2017 · Those practicing and encouraging self-care regularly, however, usually echo a famous quote from Audre Lorde’s 1988 book of essays, A Burst of Light: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence ...
“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”: …
Jun 3, 2021 · The indomitable Audre Lorde naturally deserves the last word about arguably one of the most important tools in the Black health equity researcher’s toolbox: self-care.
Breaking Isolation: Self Care and Community Care Tools for our …
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”--Audre Lorde. In moments of grief, crisis, or trauma, and in the time before and after, we need each other to survive and thrive.
There is No Self-Care without Community Care - URGE
Nov 10, 2020 · The late activist Audre Lorde, adopted these philosophies in her own writing and expanded on self-care in her essays. Most notably in her 1988 book, A Burst of Light, Lorde writes “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is …
Reclaiming Audre Lorde’s Radical Self-Care - Refinery29
May 28, 2021 · It's time Black women reclaim the sentiment of self-care as “an act of political warfare" with a focus on community care — as Audre Lorde intended — instead of a thing rich people do in ...
The Radical History of Self-Care - Teen Vogue
Jan 14, 2021 · By the 1980s, activist and writer Audre Lorde amplified the intersectionality of self-care and civil rights as she dealt with cancer, in her book A Burst of Light: and Other Essays, which...
Reclaiming Self-care: Self-care as a Social Justice Tool for Black ...
Radical self-care can be traced back to the scholarship of Black and Latinx feminists such as bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldua (Anzaldúa, 1987; Hobart & Kneese, 2020; Hooks, 1993; Lorde, 1988; Nicol & Yee, 2017; Nayak, 2020) and has been viewed