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arseli dokumaci
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Disability, chronic illness, ecology, performance, climate crisis and waste. Researcher, microactivist and gardener. Author of Activist Affordances (DukeUP, 2023) Director, Access in the Making Lab. accessinthemaking.ca
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POSTPONED! ("Activist Affordances" Virtual book launch). "In sorrow and fury and after extensive conversation, we have decided to postpone our discussion of Arseli’s book. The time is not right. [1]
a black and white text that reads: "POSTPONED! "In sorrow and fury and after extensive conversation, we have decided to postpone our discussion of Arseli’s book. The time is not right. We do not wish to celebrate Activist Affordances as massive disablement, debility and death-making take place in Gaza. uncomfortable talking about the book, as places are being actively decimated and reduced to rubble, affordances are being eradicated, and entire livelihoods are erased out of existence. The situation in Gaza and the broader occupied Palestine is beyond shrinkage. In the face of genocidal violence, this event can wait. We look forward to a conversation at a future date. (Please follow the email updates from the Center for Disability Studies). (A note from Arseli and Michele) A black and white text that has NYU logo on top and Center for Disability Studies. The rest of the text that follows read: "Virtual Book Launch Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds, author Arseli Dokumaci with Michele Friedner Friday October 27th, 4-5:30 pm ET on Zoom"
October 25, 2023 at 5:11 PM
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History of settler state's brutal attacks repeating itself again and again and again with total impunity. (The two pages are taken from Jasbir Puar's "Right to Maim", pages 128-9.)
A photo from the book "Right to Maim" (pg. 127) that reads: "A catalogue of suffering: It is yet unclear what the carnage in Gaza rom the summer of 2014 will be known as, remembered as, or named. And it may remain unclear for quite some time. The tally is in (though ever-evolving) after fifty-one days of Operation Protective Edge. The United Nations reported that 2,131 Palestinians were killed during Israel's offensive, including 501 children; 70 percent were under the age of twelve. A total of 244 schools were shelled, and another was used as a military base by Israeli soldiers. The Ministry of Health In Gaza recorded 10,918 people injured, including 3,312 children and 2,210 women." The photo of the next page (128) continues: "The Palestinian human rights organization Al Mezan documented at least 10,589 houses were damaged or destroyed, and of which 2,715 were completely flattened. (later reports state 18,000homes were destroyed, including high-rise apartment buildings). Eight hospitals (resulting in six being taken out of service) forty-six NGOs, fifty fishing boats, 161 mosques, and 244 were also hit. In September 2014, 80 percent of Gazan families had no means to feed themselves and were completely dependent on aid. Amnesty international reported that at least thirteen health facilities and eighty-four schools were forced to close. Doctors without borders had difficulty reaching populations that needed assistance given the severity of bombing, fuel shortages that grounded more than half of the ambulences, and depletion of supplies. A number of hospitals were damaged, contravening the Geneva Convention, which considers civilian hospitals to be protected during w
October 17, 2023 at 10:05 PM
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Reading for Palestine ❤️. Thank you Maktaba Bookstore.
two books side by side, one is titled "The Palestine Laboratory" by Antony Loewenstein and the other is titled "Palestine as Metaphor" by Mahmoud Darwish.
October 14, 2023 at 9:31 PM
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🔥"Activist Affordances" virtual book launch 🔥
SO excited to be in conversation w Michele Friedner about "activist affordances", "shrinkage", improvisation, "the habitus of ableism" & other things. Come & join us: shorturl.at/iBX08 Thank you ♥️ so much Michele, Faye, and Mara. @dukepress.bsky.social
A screenshot of the event, with a black and white letters and boxes, including NYU logo, Center for disability studies and the rest of the text reads: "Virtual Book Launch. Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds, author Arseli Dokumaci with Michele Friedner. Friday October 27th, 4-5:30 pm ET on Zoom" "Disability scholars Arseli Dokumaci and Michele Friedner discuss Arseli’s new work, Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds (Duke 2023). Drawing on the book's rich ethnography, Arseli and Michele will engage in a lively conversation about the immense amount of creative work disabled people do everyday, building inhabitable worlds from the ground up, followed by discussion with the audience."
September 25, 2023 at 7:17 PM
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Grateful for these beauties.
Magnificent Swiss chard with huge green leaves and a strikingly bright pink stems and veins A super happy Swiss chard with huge green leaves and big chunky yellow stems A rather smaller Swiss chard but with an amazingly green huge lead that has pink veins that strike you!
September 24, 2023 at 4:53 PM
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Nasturtium ❤️
Nasturtium leaves of all sizes, round and with intricate detail. In the middle one red flower Nasturtium plant again with big round leaves all green and 3 yellow flowers. Leaves have intricate lines
September 24, 2023 at 4:44 PM
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beauty.
An amazingly purple eggplant that I am holding in my hand. Looks like a curved letter U Same eggplant in my hand again but I turned the U down
September 22, 2023 at 1:13 PM
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An ivy with edible green leaves and berry like purple fruits covering a wall An ivy with green edible leaves, crawling around a balcony handrail
September 22, 2023 at 12:30 PM
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Cosmos for everyone ❤️
A bunch of pale and dark pink cosmos flowers aiming for the skies
September 20, 2023 at 3:25 PM
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❤️The unsurpassable generosity of the Earth. Something that colonialist, capitalist and extractivist cruelty will never be able to consume.
A bunch of freshly harvested parsley, covering a dish towel, and drying in all their green glory
September 19, 2023 at 10:44 PM
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“Activist affordances” are meant to offer a vocabulary for such exceedingly subtle yet profoundly artistic choreographies that disabled ppl have to continually rehearse everyday to make the world more habitable for themselves & others. www.dukeupress.edu/activist-aff...
two hands in close-up, while the right hand holds a measuring cup and empties it into a bowl, the left hand holds it under and provides support
September 19, 2023 at 8:29 PM
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Such choreographies that disabled people have to rehearse everyday, no matter how tiny, how brief, and how ordinary they may appear, are nothing short of acts of world-building. #ActivistAffordances #everydaychoreographiesofdisabledliving #disability #activism #worldmaking
two hands in close-up buttoning a shirt by pulling the fabric on both sides of the button and pushing the button with the thumb through the buttonhole
September 19, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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People ask me, why call these affordances as "world-making" or as "activist"? After all, what could be so radical or so world-altering about, well, holding a spoon or buttoning a shirt differently? That's exactly why I felt the need to write this book. #disability #activism #worldmaking
Book cover of "Activist Affordances: How disabled people improvise more habitable worlds", with the title on the upper half, and a hand holding a spoon in a highly innovative way in the lower half.
September 19, 2023 at 2:16 PM
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Like a painting. So many tiny beans with purple, pink and white colours in a close up.
September 16, 2023 at 10:05 PM
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Full of gratitude to the Land.
6 pots of freshly picked vegetables, including eggplants, tomatoes and beans. They are laid out on a table
September 16, 2023 at 9:58 PM
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Back at work at AIM Lab, gathered around our kitchen table, physically and virtually, with good company, food, lots of joy and care.
AIM members gathered around their kitchen/work table, facing a tv with the rest of our members on zoom. ID photo AIM members Rachel and Nick on working hard at our kitchen/work table, behind Nick is a wall with many studs (stay tuned!) ID photo AIM members Nick and Dresda as a Canadian tuxedo duo, happily next to each other
September 15, 2023 at 12:01 AM
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Back at work at our cosy home @AccessMaking Lab, with food to share, with lots care to give and take, w nazar boncuğu’s to protect us, w handmade cups, and w a few revolutions to make. ⛔️Caution the institution: microactivists work here.
Two core members of Access in the making (AIM) Lab, Prakash and Arseli, in front of the lab’s wall with many wooden studs on it, and they are pointing at “nazar boncuğu” Same wall, this time with a few books, a lamp and four shelves on the studs, holding mugs letters with A, I, M, L, A,B. and a revolutionary hand Two shelves floating on wooden sticks. There are six mugs on them with the letters A, I, M, L, A, B., and with a brownie, and two evil eyes, and a revolution hand drawing
September 10, 2023 at 10:21 PM
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taking matters into your own hands
A huge tomato covering and extending my palm, and it’s kind of split into two tomatoes. I’m in the garden as I hold it Same tomato seen on the other side, with lots of lovely brown stitch like paths and hills on it
September 10, 2023 at 11:19 AM