SelfCare Tag
Within the age of makeover reality shows, the Fab Five’s assistance is just as individualistic and exclusive as the remaining, despite the emotional backstories
Netflix’s tagline for its 2018 hit reality show, Queer Eye, is: ‘Greater than only a makeover.’ The show is all about self-care, which is interpreted for its global audience as DIY grooming, healthy eating, and checking in with yourself. When Audre Lorde, a black lesbian activist, first used the term self-care in A Burst of Light – written after her cancer diagnosis – she was talking about self-preservation as an act of “political warfare”, a prioritising of the self in a world that wishes you to die. On Queer...
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Has self-care turn out to be the newest marketing tool or is the worldwide recognition of the practice exactly what we'd like?
Welcome to the Dazed Beauty Digital Spa. From the role of placebo in extreme wellness to the issue with our cannabis obsession, here we explore the complexities of the wellness industry and the way it would evolve.
I first stumbled across the term self-care back in 2015 whilst scrolling through gal-dem, a magazine written by women and non-binary people of color. The name was self-explanatory however the act of taking care of myself hadn’t actually been a notion I’d considered and even regarded as needed. Now in 2019, you don’t need to look...
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