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If you listen to a podcast, scroll through Instagram, read your favorite news site, chances are that you’ll run into an ad for a new wellness product that you likely do not need. Preying on our innate fear of our own mortality, the wellness industrial complex is the manifestation of a kind of capitalism, colonization, and white supremacy, that promises you that if you buy this green juice, or do that colon cleanse, you too will be saved from illness, disability, or death. You will maintain power and control over yourself and others. If you control your body, all the things it consumes, or does, you can keep your body from bodying all over you.
In an era of rampant public health misinformation and a distrust of institutions, Americans are running towards the wellness industry to save themselves.
Multidisciplinary artist and author of Who is Wellness For, Fariha Róisín, joins to discuss exactly that question: WHO IS WELLNESS FOR?
Check out this episode’s landing page at MsMagazine.com for a full transcript and more.
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