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The Illusions of Self-Care: Taking Care of Ourselves So We Can Imagine Possible Futures

When the individual perspective ignores inequality, care loses its collective meaning. Reclaiming that meaning—through community efforts, time, networks, and policies—is essential to envisioning shared futures and making them possible.

The Illusions of Self-Care: Taking Care of Ourselves So We Can Imagine Possible Futures
Sep 22, 2025·1 min read

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Sara R. Zubillaga

Sara R. Zubillaga

Sobre Sara

Political scientist, decolonial feminist, Afro-Peruvian. Manager of advocacy and capacity-building processes with a gender, interculturality and sexual diversity approach. Master’s in Gender, Society and Policies from the Regional Training Program in Gender and Public Policies (PRIGEPP) of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Argentina. Member of the Colectiva por la Libre Información para las Mujeres and of the anticolonial feminist Quilombo supported by the Migration, Gender and Development Network. Experience in social research and in the coordination, monitoring and evaluation of development projects; management of capacity-building and political advocacy processes in the field of human rights, with an emphasis on defending the rights of women, girls and adolescents in all their diversity.

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