Unwiring Our Bodies

How Tech Creates Access & Connection For Disabled BIPOC Bodies


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In today’s episode, we explore:

  • What is our embodied experience of tech creating access and connection for us as disabled BIPOC folks?

  • What is our felt sense of Mia Mingus’s “access intimacy”?

  • My own experiences of tech creating access to community, direct action, activism, healthcare, embodiment, income, food, and medicine as a disabled BIPOC person

  • Black disabled activist Vilissa Thompson’s writing on how tech helps foreground the overlooked voices of multiply-marginalized, disabled folks, helps us access community, and provides an avenue for activism with real-world impact

  • Disabled Chinese-American activist’s Alice Wong’s ideas of freedom, sense of self, and digital alchemy on the internet, from Moya Bailey’s Digital Alchemy podcast

    • A 1-minute embodied art practice on embodying in-person and online connections. Share your creation here for my zine open call due May 24! Contribute here: ⁠rewilding.cc/zine⁠
    • An invitation to Rest Nests for Nara, an online embodied art workshop on May 28 to raise funds for our disabled Palestinian friend, Nara - facilitated by me and Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments. Register here: ⁠bit.ly/restnestnara⁠

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    EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: https://www.rewilding.cc/blog/how-tech-creates-access-connection-for-disabled-bipoc-bodies

    CITATIONS

    • Mia Mingus on access intimacy: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/
    • How Technology Is Forcing the Disability Rights Movement into the Twenty-First Century by Vilissa Thompson https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/30420/24776 
    • Global Day of Action for Palestine May 15, 2025: https://bdsmovement.net/news/nakba-77-palestinians-call-global-day-action-15-may-2025 
    • Tricia Hersey: http://www.triciahersey.com/
    • Generative Somatics: http://generativesomatics.org/
    • Digital Alchemy - Alice Wong, Digital Spaces as Freedom for Disabled Folks: https://digital-alchemy.transistor.fm/episodes/digital-alchemy-alice-wong-digital-spaces-as-freedom-for-disabled-folks/transcript
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    Unwiring Our BodiesBy TQ