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Episode 32: The Evolution of Self-Care

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The snail unit discusses the evolution of self-care from activist motto to marketing slogan.

canceling plans is ok. staying home to cook is ok. disappearing for a bit to get your life together is ok. resurfacing in a foreign country with a new name 10 years later is ok. it’s called self care

— Kevin Farzad (@KevinFarzad) January 13, 2018

What we’ve been up to
  • Fiddy is now Director of Marketing at Beautytap
  • Cat got a puppy!!
  • Tracy is a journalist
  • Chel has released new Holy Snails products and shaved her head

    • Links
    • Chel’s scalp massager
    • “But ultimately, choosing instant gratification has proven catastrophically destructive.” comes from “The rise of Donald Trump demands we embrace a harder kind of self-care“
    • Chel and Fiddy’s Snailcast episode on motherhood
    • Fiddy’s essay on how skincare helped her with depression
    • Cat and Tracy on kbeauty shopping research
    • “Women and people of color viewed controlling their health as a corrective to the failures of a white, patriarchal medical system to properly tend to their needs.” comes from “A History of Self-Care“
    • “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” comes from A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
    • McDonald’s self-care hashtag campaign mentioned in “The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care“
    • College Humor satirical video on self-care
    • Tracy on the lipstick effect in Racked
    • Pat McGrath lipstick, Tom Ford lipstick
    • The Holy Snail wine
    • Lifehacker’s How I Work series
    • CVS bans photoshopping beauty product ads
    • The Hairpin’s self-care column: “This column has a singular purpose: to talk to women about navigating a world where they are their own savior.”
    • Where to find The Tub in Philly (King Spa Room)
    • “Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference.” Quote by Audre Lorde from A Burst of Light: and Other Essays.

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