A Look at Radical Self-Care

ShutterstockBy Akilah Sailers ·Updated April 5, 2025I’ve found the meaning of radical care in reflections of my maternal line and their strange relationship to the water.I called my maternal grandmother—a Cancer—a few weeks before Christmas. We have some easy back-and-forth every month or so, but this time, we mostly went back; I listened as she recalled her childhood with her mother, who migrated North on foot from Jim Crow Mississippi. She spoke of growing up on the So