Links for Later: Self-Care Edition
Self-care has an activist history. Image by Getty Images
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-Marisa Meltzer explores “the difference between self-care and simply pampering.”
-Madeleine Schwartz reported on Zika and reproductive rights in El Salvador.
-Marianne Cooper ponders the cancellation of Good Girls Revolt argues that the “tendency for white men to disproportionately control editorial decision making — to use their particular experience and taste as a proxy for everyone else’s experience and taste — can have real consequences for brands and bottom lines.”
-Jacob T. Levy offers the best pushback yet against the notion still floating around that marginalized groups’ “identity politics” gave us Trump.
-Set aside a few hours for Ta-Nehisi Coates’s powerful essay, “My President Was Black.”
Phoebe Maltz Bovy edits the Sisterhood, and can be reached at [email protected]. Her book, The Perils of “Privilege”, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017.
