The Friendship Industrial Complex

‘Community’ is essentially our duty to care for what we share together. Self care puts the responsibility on us as individuals, to address what are essentially systemic social issues. Community care moves us away from that, toward a model of shared accountability.

i increasingly think there’s intense cruelty to shilling self-care as the solution for ppl who are clearly craving purpose

We collect healing modalities like they're Pokémon cards, each promising to fix whatever part of ourselves we've decided is defective this week. " Oh, you have childhood trauma? Have you tried this artisanal, small-batch, locally-sourced form of emotional self-flagellation?"

The real kicker? The vicious rumor that personal growth must feel like wre... See more