Reading list

What to read when ‘self-care’ isn’t enough.

My New Year’s resolution is to care and be cared for by a community. 

1 December 2023

What to read when ‘self-care’ isn’t enough.

“New Year, New Me!” 

The rise of self-care has created a huge consumer market that is delinked from the social relations individuals exist within. Nonetheless, the idea of self-care really stems from progressive and radical impulses. When you regularly experience violence and degradation, attacks on your self-esteem and your sense of self-worth, taking care of yourself is an act of resistance. 

We need to move towards a world in which we acknowledge the extent to which we are all dependent upon each other in our approach to education, motherhood, and our everyday vulnerabilities of disability, ageing, and enhanced needs.

These books highlight the solidarity needed in struggling for better lives for all.

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  • Lean on Me
    Questions of care, intimacy, education, meaningful work, and social engagement lie at the core of our ability to understand the world and its possibilities for human flourishing. In Lean On Me femi...
  • Under the Banner of King Death
    Under the Banner of King Death is a tale of mutiny, bloody battle, and social revolution, bringing to life an itinerant community of outsiders behind today’s legends. This graphic novel breaks new ...
    Paperback
  • Free Them All

    Free Them All

    How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve women's liberation?The mainstream feminist movement h...
  • The Care Manifesto
    The Care Manifesto is the fiercely argued demand to place care at the centre of our politics. Our lives are always interdependent. It is by nurturing these ties that we cultivate a world in which e...
    Paperback
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  • Mutual Aid
    Mutual Aid is a radical handbook for anyone who grasps the severity of the global poly-crisis and wants a community-based means to fight back. Dean Spade — lawyer, academic, writer, and activist — ...
  • Abolish the Family
    What if we could do better than the family?We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonmen...
    Paperback

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