To mark the release of her debut essay collection Poor Little Sick Girls: A Love Letter To Unacceptable Women, IoneGamble talks to Stylist about the concept of selfcare – and how reimagining the way we think about it could help us all.
, I already had this kind of innate cynicism or distrust in the concept of self-care that we’ve been fed over the last decade – the kind of ‘buy a bath bomb, feel better’ narrative,” Gamble tells“It just felt very individualistic, and I didn’t like how it placed a political problem on the self by suggesting that you can self-improve yourself out of issues or problems that might be down to structural inequality or things out of your control.
“I think self-care can be both individual and political. At the end of the day, you’re never going to be able to be a proactive person if you’reor extremely stressed, which we obviously all feel very often, especially in the current landscape. “But I think where the problem arises is that now big corporations have latched on to self-care as something they can sell us to make ourselves feel better and make it seem like it’s a political act to buy these things, even though the products themselves may not be very ethical.
“When has the kind of self-care we implement now ever made anyone feel better for a prolonged period of time?”
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