# self-love

**URL:** <https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/self-love/154>\
**Category:** love study hall\
**Tags:** complexity, interdependence, self-care, love, dualism\
**Created:** [February 25, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/self-love/154 "2022-02-25T16:01:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/user_avatar/community.underminingnormal.com/alex/32/24_2.png) [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/self-love/154/1 "2022-02-25T16:01:00Z")

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**self-love** (a winter love study hall)

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Self- **love** , in a world built on binary, transactional, hierarchical frameworks, **where individuals are ever in competition** , self-love (where to love, as bell hooks shows us, is to systematically support a person’s integrity as well as your own) **is inherently radical**. It’s not bubble baths (though they’re allowed) and days off from work (though they are deeply needed); it’s a **stance against our dominant culture of duality** , a resting in complexity and an ever-developing a practice of interdependence.

Sonya Renee Taylor, poet and author of **[The Body Is Not An Apology, The Power of Radical Self-Love](https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/)** in a conversation on **[Layla F. Saad’s Good Ancestor podcast](http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast/ep033-sonya-taylor)** shared this with us:

> …radical self-love is as far as I’m concerned first and foremost a political framework. It is a social justice framework and so I invite people when they think about this idea of radical self-love to see their relationship with themselves as a personal relationship and as a deeply political relationship. And so our transformation is a political necessity. Audre Lorde says self-care is not an act of self-indulgence but an act of political warfare. — [Sonya Renee Taylor on Radical Self Love](http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast/ep033-sonya-taylor)

It’s a lot to take in.  
Can we do it together?

## Hope to see you at this week’s winter love study hall.

Fri, 25-Feb from 5:30-6:15pm EST.  
[Register here to attend](https://lu.ma/1u82shjr).

> **self-love (winter study hall)**
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> **Starts:** February 25, 2022, 10:30pm (UTC)\
> **Ends:** February 25, 2022, 11:15pm (UTC)

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