Self-care is a term popularized by Black feminist writer, poet and educator Audre Lorde, referring to self-preservation amid activist cultures that often undervalued personal healing, wellness, comfort and care. The term has since come to encompass many forms of self-preservation far beyond Lorde’s original intent. Critics of self-care (in its everyday usage) highlight the neoliberal urge to find virtue in aestheticized acts of leisure (see Sharma in Take Care broadsheet). In light of its ubiquity and misuse, what could self-care look like for people facing precarity and marginalization? What can sustain the self in an oppressive world? What can community care do that self-care can’t? (see Sharpe).