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In this episode, I share:

• My stories and lifelong experience of having non-verbal episodes while visibly queer and radicalized
• The embodied experience of becoming non-verbal - what it feels like in the body
• The environments and sensations that lead to these episodes
• How I’m shedding the internalized shame and oppression that comes with going non-verbal
• How I’m starting to recognize and honor my non-verbal needs
• My experience of communicating in non-verbal, ancestral ways while in community
• How embracing my non-verbal needs expanded my capacity to meet my other needs for connection at Rest Nests for Nara
• A free up-coming co-creating call for disabled, neurodivergent, QTIBIPOC folks
• How you can support and sustain this work to connect more disabled QTIBIPOC folks together

LINKS

• Join the free monthly co-creating call for disabled, neurodivergent, QTIBIPOC folks here
• Subscribe to the newsletter for episode updates
• Ayana Zaire Cotton: “Asking for help, refusing to resent our capacity, honoring the needs of our body and moving at the speed of creative flow is rigorous work that might require practice if our learned impulse is to habitually bring ourselves to the edge of our capacity in order to feel worthy of the ease of our creative expression.”
• Help sustain this work by tipping here
  

In this episode of 'Unwiring Our Bodies,' TQ returns after a hiatus due to autistic burnout. TQ discusses the importance of resting and embracing one's needs during burnout. The episode highlights supporting Nara, a disabled Palestinian friend, through fundraising and updates on her situation in Gaza. TQ also promotes an upcoming BIPOC-only, Crip-friendly virtual art workshop to support Nara's family. Listeners are encouraged to participate or share the event. The episode ends with thoughts on the complexities of autistic burnout and TQ commitment to sharing more on this topic in the future.

LINKS

• Join Rest Nests for Nara here
• Join the Substack to read the episode transcript

In this episode of 'Unwiring Our Bodies,' TzeQing is joined by Sky Cubacub, a non-binary, disabled Filipinx, neuro-queer from Chicago, Illinois. Sky talks about their creative journey with Rebirth Garments, a line of wearables designed for trans, queer, and disabled individuals. They also discuss their collaborations, including the 'Rest Nests for Nara' workshop, and share personal experiences around clothing, accessibility, and creativity. The conversation explores how creative expression through fashion can be a form of liberation and how changing one’s environment can influence mental and emotional wellbeing.

00:00 Introduction to Unwiring Our Bodies

01:04 Meet Sky Cubacub: Creator of Rebirth Garments

05:07 Sky's Journey with Sensory-Friendly Fashion

09:40 Inspiration Behind Rebirth Garments

12:32 The Impact of Comfortable Clothing

18:44 Navigating Creativity with Chronic Fatigue

26:21 Rest Nests for Nara Workshop

33:26 Introduction to Rest Nests

33:50 Rest Nests as Art for Disabled Folks

34:45 Prompts and Community Aspects of Rest Nests

36:14 Grounding, Resting, and Raging in Community

36:47 Personal Experiences and Stories

38:49 Challenges and Adaptations

41:22 Upcoming Events and Support

43:53 Next Rest Nest Event Details

47:06 Concluding Thoughts and Embodied Art Ritual

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LINKS & WORKS CITED

• Episode transcript
• Support Rest Nests for Nara: No Pride in Genocide happening on Sunday, June 29
• bell hooks: “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy”
• Sky’s Radical Visibility manifesto
• Sky’s Rebirth Garments  
• Next Queer Radical Fair, July 31, 2025, 4.30-8.30pm 
• Design Museum: Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style 
• V&A South Kensington: Design and Disability 
• Sky’s Garment Generator Game 

In today’s episode, we explore:

• How do we sustain ourselves and each other in an apocalypse, as empire crumbles?

• A recap of our recent art workshop fundraiser, Rest Nests for Nara

• What our participants enjoyed about the Rest Nest experience

• The behind-the-scenes experience of facilitating the workshop (plus showing up brain-fogged)

• How we prioritized access intimacy and grounding

• Creating our Rest Nests and resting in community

• The powerful, expansive conversations we had around the broader, systemic implications of Rest Nests

• Our super cute, rage-y closing ritual

• How you can join our next Rest Nests for Nara on Sunday, June 29

• A 1-minute embodied art ritual on dignity and pride

LINKS:

• Subscribe to the Rewilding newsletter to be the first to know when registration opens for our next Rest Nests for Nara

• Episode transcript

WORKS CITED:

• Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

• Access Intimacy: The Missing Link by Mia Mingus

• Generative somatics
  

In this episode, we explore:

• Grief as disabled technology as explored by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in The Future is Disabled

• How the speculative fiction I wrote as a teenager is all coming true

• What the grief of living in polycrisis is doing to our bodies

• Why the privilege of slowing down is a capitalist lie and what slowing down really is according to Dr. Bayo Akomolafe

• The crip technology of living with chronic illness and surviving capitalism

• What happens if the world adopts disabled grief technology?

• Our Rest Nests For Nara art workshop fundraiser for our disabled Palestinian friend Nara as a communal container for chronic rage and grief

• Our weekly 1-minute embodied art ritual adapted from Rest Nests, focusing on grief and rage

LINKS

• Read the episode transcript 

• Reserve your virtual seat at Rest Nests for Nara happening May 28, 2pn ET

• Subscribe to TzeQing’s Rewilding newsletter for more embodied art rituals and new episode updates

WORKS CITED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Definitions of technology

• Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s interview with green dreamer
  

In today’s episode, we talk about:

• What is our embodied sense of liberation when using technology?
• Rest Nests for Nara: Join us on May 28 for this virtual embodied art workshop to raise funds for our disabled Palestinian friend, Nara
• What does disabled liberation mean or look like?
• The importance of insisting on disabled creativity
• The first step to stepping into the fullness of our disabled creativity (and why it’s not as easy as it looks)
• A 1-minute embodied art ritual to “sculpt” crip time in our bodies
• Closing on May 24: The Rewilding Zine open call for disabled BIPOC folks about tech as access/disconnection - Submit your work here.

LINKS

• Episode transcript
• The Rewilding Newsletter

CITATIONS

• Ayana Zaire Cotton, Seeda School
• Tricia Hersey
• Mia Mingus, Access Intimacy
• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future is Disabled
• Sky Cubacub, Rebirth Garments
• Ellen Samuels, Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time
• Sins Invalid
• I Wanna Be With You Everywhere art show
• Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill: S2 Ep10: Ask Us Anything with Prentis and Eddie, Jun 21, 2021
• Green Dreamer: Abby Reyes: Engaging ‘the slow work’ in the face of urgency and crises, May 13, 2025
  

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

• Introducing Unwiring Our Bodies, a podcast about what it means to come back to ourselves in an increasingly digital world that pulls us away from our bodies.

  In this episode:

  • Introducing the host, TzeQing (they/them) and their creative, somatic lineages
  • What it means for us to feel disembodied by tech
  • The systemic roots of tech-driven disembodiment
  • 1-minute embodied art practice you can do anywhere
  • Rewilding Zine #1 now open for submissions!

  
  

  Links:

  • ⁠Help my Palestinian friend Nara here⁠
  • Episode Transcript
  • The Rewilding Newsletter

  
  

  Citations:

  • https://www.seedaschool.com/
  • https://rebirthgarments.com/
  • https://www.eroticsofliberation.com/practicefield
  • https://www.findingourwaypodcast.com/
  • https://generativesomatics.org/
  • https://oranglaut.sg/
  • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
  • Access Intimacy by Mia Mingus