WHAT ARE WE?
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What are we?
emerged out of conversations with a group of friends. Inspired by the following quote by 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 - & 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  - create alternative ways of experiencing reality & understanding ourselves & our relationship with the diverse social & biological ecologies we are part of? 
 
Having a digital space to share asynchronously allowed for imaginative threads to diffract, coalesce & weave themselves in our lovingly tended digital space.

​The below spoken word piece was a riff - an improvised response
with-in this thick conversational thread. The music emerged alongside the riff during the same time period & the two were merged with visuals to create the whole.

​A random visit from a friend, Ilona McGavock, developed into an impromptu recording session which the gorgeous violin arrangements emerged out of.
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THANK YOU to my dear friends who have inhabited the eye of the whale with me & thus are co-minglers of this work : Craig Slee, Julie Johnson, Natasha Terry, Aerin Dunford, Irin Tudor, Robyn Filla, 
Ilona McGavock & Tricky Singer. Thanks also to Headquarters for spurring me on with financial support & a deadline.
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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