Capitalist Co-optation

Colorfully collaged and complete with hand drawn and handwritten examples, students of Barnard's 2018 "Gendered Controversies" course challenge the liberal notions of the commercialized self-care industry. They include a penned timeline of the usage of the term first coined by Audre Lorde (featured on the cover), magazine collages and illustrations of examples from companies selling you stress-beating essential oils and Barnard-sanctioned cupcake breaks, and quotes from Cara Page, Aisha Harris, Deirdre Cooper and others offering us radical alternatives.