Allowing ourselves the “inconvenience” of community can be healing, and a key to resistance. As guests filed in for Alternatives’ first Cocktails & Complicity of the year, we invited them to consider two questions: What kind of support system would make your...
Everywhere you look, there’s talk about self-care, and it’s often through the lens of consumption: we get advertisements for bath bombs, purchasing fitness sessions and subscriptions, or buying special journals to manage our emotions. When life is hard or your mental...