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An intersectional guide to building resilience and reclaiming joy.
Building resilience is usually seen as a solo pursuit: face your history, accept your insecurities, and conquer your fears to awaken your best life. As individuals, we each experience negative pressures and stressors—but viewing their effects through an individualistic lens obscures the fact that resilience is a community effort, and that inner resilience powers wide-scale transformation.
Oppression, stress, and trauma disproportionately affect members of marginalized communities, like people of color, women, religious minorities, and LGBTQ+ populations. But the self-help remedies offered up by mainstream wellness culture don't quite make space for the ways in which race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and environment intersect to prevent resilience-building—and they don't address the systemic and structural issues that produce trauma and oppression in the first place. The way we frame...
Building resilience is usually seen as a solo pursuit: face your history, accept your insecurities, and conquer your fears to awaken your best life. As individuals, we each experience negative pressures and stressors—but viewing their effects through an individualistic lens obscures the fact that resilience is a community effort, and that inner resilience powers wide-scale transformation.
Oppression, stress, and trauma disproportionately affect members of marginalized communities, like people of color, women, religious minorities, and LGBTQ+ populations. But the self-help remedies offered up by mainstream wellness culture don't quite make space for the ways in which race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and environment intersect to prevent resilience-building—and they don't address the systemic and structural issues that produce trauma and oppression in the first place. The way we frame...
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