QUEER FEMME BIPOC
HEALING JUSTICE
CARE WORK:
‘THE FUTURE IS DISABLED’,
WHO BELONGS?
&
‘THE WISDOM OF THE DIVERGENT VOICE.’
Videos from Vital Voices in Care Work, Disability & Othering
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Recently I have been reading these amazing resources
Centralising the Work of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The more we shed or awaken to our systemic power-over conditioning, the more likey we are to be driven ‘crazy’ by the world. In KIN we have back up support! Recognition is everything when we are anchoring a body of a reality.
Do you understand that neurodiversity and chronic illnesses - also the kind of chronic illness that is a result of chronic stress, for example, from surviving within extremely precarious livelihoods, from exiting within burnout/abandonment culture, or from living with a system where we as real bodies, especially queer, femme or bipoc bodies are consistently gaslight, can be contributing towards a greater form of dis-ability?
How many contortions are needed from us to be able to survive, let alone thrive?
What would it bring us (tools, practices, allowances) to be able to imagine us healthy & thriving?
How do we pace ourselves through it, also through activism?
Is it usual to experience certain ‘failures’ in grassroots networks and activism, and how is this possible to move through, accept, and evolve?
What kind of working and living conditions would you need to imagine for The World for this evolution?
Look towards the wisdom of the strongest folks who have been surviving and thriving against all odds. They are the Black Indigenous Queer Femme Diferently or Disabsled folks.
You will find recognition and sanity here!
These resources are from the wisdom from those who know what it means to have not been centralised and to have to consistently face barriers of inclusion.
Through this hard won wisdom knowing about these voices can be informative for you to learn tactics and to relate with your lived experiences of what it means to be a deconditioning body in the now.
None of us are experiencing in isolation. Lets find our Kin and strengthen the voices and the dialogues of what we are saying.
Highly recommended to check the books, and hope you enjoy the video links.
"Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice“
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
“Who Belongs?, with Imani Barbarin | #OBConf24”
Othering & Belonging Institute-------------------
Rooted Global Villiage:
Kai Cheng Thom, “Wisdom of The Divergent Voice”