What is wellness—and who gets to perform, claim, and practice it? We asked these questions and more in our latest, The Wellness Issue. theethnicaisle.com

.Shazlin “not Shaolin” Rahman: "How do you get well when your wellness is connected to home, and home is thousands of miles away?" ow.ly/71PB30kf8df

With the Wellness Issue, we wanted to talk about the large spectrum of experiences in caring for a racialized body. theethnicaisle.com

"For centuries, community-focused care and ancestral healing knowledge have existed as practices of resistance and freedom for folks of colour." ow.ly/Sa4G30kf8ax

"I wanted to kindle the kind of healing that yoga has given me. What I didn’t realize was how detached my lived experience of yoga would be from what I’d be expected to teach." ow.ly/L2S230kf8h9

As an idea, wellness is as malleable as it is expansive, and we’re pretty thrilled with how our contributors took on the concept. theethnicaisle.com

.Afro Lavigne: "Chronic stress has far-reaching impacts on mental and physical health, for Black communities in particular." ow.ly/Nmoy30kf8ml

.Michelle Kay: "Chinese food and certain aspects of Eastern medicine have entered the mainstream, but traditional Chinese medicine is often regarded with suspicion and sometimes labelled as pseudoscience." ow.ly/Lwd030kf8qp

Wanted: Health Care That Works for Indigenous Women ow.ly/No3L30kf86l

Remedy in Practice: A Still Life ow.ly/3tOk30kf87V

Wellness begins at home, but where is that? ow.ly/ubA330kf8bJ

Cash Rules Everything Around Me—Especially My Health ow.ly/qZQ430kf8jE

The Sipping Point: Lessons From Mom's Kitchen ow.ly/rKKw30kf8pu

Confessions of A Brown Yoga Teacher ow.ly/3LHg30kf8fq

Our co-founder Denise Balkissoon will be interviewing Junot Diaz about his new children's book Islandborn on March 24! You should come! facebook.com/events/1500658…

We got some great pitches for our Wellness issue, but are still accepting ideas for stories on pregnancy/birth and by Indigenous writers. Get in touch! theethnicaisle.com/contribution-g…

Hosted by our co-founder Denise Balkissoon! Tickets on sale at 10 am! x.com/typebooks/stat…

Still a few tickets left for our Ethnic Aisle x TYPE event this Saturday with Junot Diaz! $25 gets you two tickets and a copy of his gorgeous new children's book. x.com/typebooks/stat…

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