As she writes in ‘A burst of light: living with cancer’,Ĭaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.Īudre Lorde, A Burst of Light (1988), p. The work of thinking with big complex ideas is rarely done and dusted after just a few thousand words.Īudre Lorde is one of the two lode stars for our modern concepts of ‘self-care’. The blog is often a place to think out loud, and to think in process. Research Degree Insiders, Can academic reading be healing?Īnd then I went on to quote from Audre Lorde’s essay ‘Poetry is not a luxury’, in Sister Outsider (1984), and since then I’ve been thinking more about the idea of ‘luxury’ and writing, and Lorde’s use of the term. And we need to do our chores, but we can also afford to have our little luxuries, our care of ourselves and of each other. Reading can seem like a luxury or a chore in academic life. If you do like theory–this will be a bloggy exemplar of thinking-with, not a tight conclusion, and I’d love to talk to you about it! Where we got to last timeĪt the end of my last post, I got to this place: There will be Latin and Greek! There will be Lorde and Foucault! If you don’t like theory, run very fast in another direction. This one is going to be a lot of messy thinking aloud about the place of writing and self-care.
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