Have you ever been sick? Have you ever had to wait to get care? Have you ever fought to get insurance coverage or waited on hold for infinite periods to ask if you were allowed to be ill despite paying for health care? Well then, you have experienced SPACORE.

SPACORE is a curatorial project that utilizes the aesthetics of camp and horror to create an accessible space to discuss the actual horror of having a body under wellness capitalism. SPACORE's first magazine is not a Health & Wellness publication, it is a Sick & Tired collection of histories, artworks, and the lived experiences under wellness capitalism.

SPACORE is the lifestyle aesthetic of the moment. Borne of the intersection of work-from-home and pandemic horror, SPACORE is the blurring lines of relaxation and employment. It is the labor of repose. SPACORE is a critique of wellness capitalism. It explores the attempt to pacify the working class with the promotion of superficial “wellness.” This version of wellness co-opts the language of radical self-care and redefines it as access to upper-class amenities. Wellness culture derives its “authenticity” from appropriative aesthetics that steal from Eastern and Indigenous cultures. Wellness is a neoliberal project designed to locate suffering within the individual in order to repress political revolt. SPACORE situates wellness in the horror genre, where it belongs.