Introduction
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The authors contextualize modern self-care, its relation to corporate marketing, its individualization, and how the movement can be tied to intersecting systems of oppression including colonization, white supremacy, sexism, homophobia, and ableism. The authors also provided a historical understanding of community justice movements including community practices organized by the Black Panther Party and The Young Lords in the 1960s, feminist movements in the 1960s and 70s, and work from Audre Lorde in the 1980s. Finally, the authors discuss the commodification of self-care, neoliberalism, and the defunding of social programs, and the current American political climate.
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Contributors
Alyson K. Spurgas
Alyson K. Spurgas is associate professor of Sociology and affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Spurgas researches, writes, and teaches about the sociology of trauma, the politics of desire, and technologies of care from an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist perspective. They are also the author of Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century (The Ohio State University Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Cultural Studies Association First Book Prize. Alyson lives in Brooklyn, New York, with their amazing partner and cat.
Zoë Meleo-Erwin
Zoë Meleo-Erwin is a qualitative sociologist and former assistant professor of public health. In 2022, she left academia to pursue a career as a user experience researcher in the tech industry. As a scholar, her work focused on the meanings of health and illness, health decision-making, experiences of embodiment, and the ways in which digital technologies facilitate the creation of both identity and community around health and illness.
