MODULE 1: SELF-CARE PODCAST

While it’s seems to have been boiled down to bubble baths and affirmations in the mainstream, self-care has always held a deeper and more political meaning with many BIPOC, particularly activists and civic media makers, who call out white supremacist, capitalist and patriarchial institutions and systems.

For civic media makers, many of whom are holding together the realities of what it means to manage one’s multiple selves (i.e., as an artist-activist-educator-etc.), navigate being a public and highly visible brand, and survive in hustle, grind and burnout cultures, self-care is acutely necessary to ensure that individual care trickles down to a larger community of care. In this podcast, we talk critically with transgender actor and comedian D’Lo and deisgner and cultural architect Daniel Leon-Davis about where civic media, self-care and the pandemic intersect and how the practice of nurturing your creative spark improves mental health.


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