Hi lovelies, I’m back to thinking about rest again. A year and a half ago I was reading academic journals on burnout, black feminist writings on rest as an act of resistance, thick self-help books on self-compassion, old theater texts on ‘what it takes,’ and the...
Two and a half years ago I was the poster child for grind culture. I was running a theatre company, working a support job and side hustles, and I almost never slowed down. When I did, it was painful. It was uncomfortable. It felt like I was incapable of enjoying any...