Political Writing and Self Care

I have more questions than answers, but I have been thinking to myself about the politics of self care in relation to Frederick Douglass, in relation to me, and in relation to trauma. How can you practice self care via writing when your body is the intersection of all of these things? We talked of how the abolitionist movement coopted Frederick Douglass' pain to fuel their movement. We talked of how Europeans objectified Sarah Baartman (Here again lies this question of naming. This is not her name, but a name given to her). We talked of how Frederick Douglass was made to objectify himself, but is there any other way to write as a black body. What are you meant to do when your body itself is a political statement? Political statements can be separate from self care only if your body has the privilege and comfort of not being one.  More and more I begin to question whether or not self care necessarily means pleasure. Is there self care in pain? Is there self care in revisiting trauma?