Is your self-care routine truly caring, or just corporate branding? When wellness is reduced to a shopping list, what does it mean to truly care for ourselves and our communities? Cricket explores the intersectional origins of self-care discourse in disability activism, and we rant a lot about the pitfalls of the American healthcare system and health insurance to meet our needs. Ashton discusses the characteristics and environmental and social impacts of the corporate self care industry, revealing how capitalism and consumerism have warped the practice meant to nurture collective healing. We wrap up the episode by waxing on the ways community and decolonizing self care can intensify our experiences of care and liberation for all. If you’re rethinking self care and consumerism this holiday season, we hope you’ll join us for this episode.

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Works Cited

Audre Lorde: A Burst of Light and Other Essays

Jina B. Kim and Sami Schalk: Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care

Adrienne Maree Brown: Pleasure Activism

Huffington Post Article about corporate self care

Ayesha Khan, Phd: It’s time to embrace community care and let go of individualistic self-care

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