Self care in crisis

It’s hard sometimes.

I see the genocide in Palaestine, Congo, Sudan. I see the cost of living crisis, the rise of facism, the transphobia everywhere. And that’s not even everything.

I see all of these things and I wonder how I can sit here and write about self care, when self care in these circumstances feels like emptying the ocean with a teaspoon. You can’t self care your way out of a terrible situation, you can’t resilience your way out of white supremacy/capitalism/patriarchy.

But self care is radical. Audre Lorde said: