#audrelorde

"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 (1988)

She wrote that while she was dying, which is the detail people leave out when they put it on a candle. Not a bath. The decision to keep a body alive that a system had already written off, and to understand that decision as strategy.

What have you stopped protecting?

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