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Audre Lorde quote on self-care resurfaces online

Original: ❝ Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ❞ ― Audre

Audre Lorde's words from 'A Burst of Light', written while she was dying of breast cancer in the late 1980s, are being widely shared: 'Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.' The quote reframes self-care as resistance rather than indulgence, and readers are invoking its origins in Lorde's illness and the Reagan-Bush era to argue that looking after one's health remains a political act today.

Why now: The quote's message about self-preservation as resistance resonates amid current public health and political debates.

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• ❝ Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ❞ ― Audre Lorde “A Burst of Light” is also known as "The Cancer Chronicles", and Lorde wrote this as she was dying of breast # cancer . at a time # ReaganBush #… · blogdiva · 63

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