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How Activists + Advocates Can Make Time for Self-Care

2020

Black lesbian writer Audre Lorde once said, “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” For activists and advocates, her advice is clutch. We have to center our self-care and joy in our movement. See more...

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