WHAT ARE WE?
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what are we?


What does the experience of disability - impairment - aberrance - chronic illness offer you, us & the world in this ecological moment?  
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What are we? emerged out of conversations with a group of friends,
inspired by the following quote from Fiona Kumari Campbell (2013)
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" A relational, counter‐ ableist version of impairment might explore what the experience of impairment produces and ask how does disability productively colour our lives?".

Through sharing our lived experience of disability & chronic illness & being curious as to how an animist lens might assist in blurring the pathological categorisation that occurs in the ableist society we inhabit - rich conversations emerged.

Can an animist perspective, a sense of there being other agents in play beyond the human, tapestried with an awareness of the ableist framework, shape shift  - allow us to notice & articulate alternative ways of experiencing reality & understanding ourselves & our relationship with the diverse social & biological ecologies we are part of? 
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Having a digital space to share asynchronously across the world allowed for imaginative threads to diffract, coalesce & weave themselves in our lovingly tended digital space.
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THANK YOU to our dear friends who have inhabited the eye of the whale & thus are co-minglers of this work.


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WHAT ARE WE? AUDIO VISUAL & WORDS
What Are We Is Found By Discovering What We Are NOT
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this WebWorld contains artefacts from
what are we?
 
a loose gathering of porous assemblages (?humans?)
​we offer care through responding & intra-acting with each other's rambles, music,
art, words, trouble, passions, curiosities & creative activities 
we are in process
emerging with - in conversations
sharing creative expressions of cultural & ecological intra-being
& cultural care making
we are also developing ways of gathering & redistributing wealth/resources/money on the basis of need in our networks
as a means of mutual aid & conscientiously shifting our relationships to money
stay tuned - send us a message if you would like to make a contribution
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Improvising-With-The-Other-Than-Human​​
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We acknowledge the Noongar Nations of Bibbulmen (Pibbleman) and Menang (Merningar) as the custodians of the land this website was built on. ​We recognise their ongoing relationships to this land and  pay our respects to their Elders past,  present & emerging.
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    • What are we? (I?) am crip?
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    • What Are We Is Found By Discovering What We Are NOT
    • Art as Process a Manifesto
    • Porous
    • situate my (self)?
    • Raven's Eye
  • ENGAGE
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