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 

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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