SELF CARE FOR SKEPTICS ZINE: LAUNCH PARTY

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Self Care for Skeptics is a zine that takes issue with the [neoliberal] notion of “self care,” approaching self care through lenses of feminisms and queer theory.

Featuring art and literature by twenty-two feminist, queer, genderqueer, and trans artists and writers.

The zine includes a limited edition artist multiple by Anthea Black and LIDS LADIES INVITATIONAL DEADBEAT SOCIETY, entitled “The Ten Cognitive Distortions.”

ARTISTS:

Alice Dixon

Anchi Lin

Anthea Black and LIDS

Anna Jane McIntyre

Chun Hua Catherine Dong

Cleo Neville

Clementine Morrigan

Cordelia Mad

Dimple B Shah

Dionne Horacsek

Eva Bryant

Evan Tyler

Jenna Lee Forde

Joan Lillian Wilson

Lillian Arvel

Lindsay Kathleen

Madeleine Black

Radical Spirits

Roz MacLean

Shana Bulhan Haydock

Tanya De Souza-Meally

Zo Ruth Biggs

Curated by Lauren Fournier

www.laurenfournier.net

ZINE LAUNCH PARTY:

SATURDAY, JULY 25

TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO

401 RICHMOND ST. WEST, SUITE 376

TORONTO, ON

6PM-9PM

The space has been offered to us through Trinity Square Video’s Testing Grounds initiative! Check out some of the great work that has been happening this summer by TSV members: http://trinity-square-video.tumblr.com/

ZINES $10.00

The notions of self-love and self-care circulate in relation to spa days, diet regimens, fitness, quiet time, clay masks, cups of tea, vacation, creative expression, meditation, yoga, eating chocolate, not eating chocolate, gardening, journalling, organizing, spending time outdoors, and other socially sanctioned and often highly gendered activities just for me. There is a tendency to use the term self-care when referring to those practices deemed healthy and good for us and thereby positively valued without questioning what the stakes of these so-called self-care practices are in the context of patriarchal neoliberal capitalist ideology with its neo-imperializing tendencies.

What does self-care look like, entail, require, or provoke for artists, writers, thinkers, performers, percolators, and makers who identify as feminists? How does a feminist ethic and aesthetic shape our understanding of self-care practices, and the ideological implications of the forms that mainstream self-care practices tend to take?

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