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When self-care rhetoric ignores economic reality

Everyone talks about self-care like buying organic food and yoga classes but my version of self-care is choosing between electricity and groceries and somehow making it feel empowering.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Wellness discourse becomes another site of class exclusion masked as personal responsibility.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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