There’s Nothing New About The New-Age

Call it for what it really is: Easy Orientalism

image accredited to artist: Kat Hassan [https://www.instagram.com/kat_hassan_draws/?hl=en]

You’re meditating with crystals in your altar-ish bedroom, with a Himalayan salt-lamp placed right next to your tarot cards and a yoga mat. Succulent plants (plastic) sit on the windowsill, right beneath your hanging fairy lights. To the left, I find a poster saying “Nama-slay” or “Namastay-in-Bed”. And of course the…