Wellness for Woke Folk: Maintaining Sanity & Self Care While Advocating for Community

Whitney Alese
5 min readApr 16, 2021

I wrote this some time ago, but I personally needed to revisit it in light of the Pandemic, ensuing social unrest, and, lately, the seemingly unending cases of police brutality and racist violence I am witnessing on my tv screen, news feeds, and social media pages. I said it then, and I’ll say it now…

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Whitney Alese

Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.