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Petra Kuppers Essay

Petra Kuppers Essay. Mockup. Mix and Match. Head. Torso. Legs. “I speak and live through organs that are two, and multiple” – Petra Kuppers. Embody. DIY: what can you do for yourself? The Poeti(x ) of Disability Activism.

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Petra Kuppers Essay

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  1. Petra Kuppers Essay Mockup

  2. Mix and Match

  3. Head Torso Legs “I speak and live through organs that are two, and multiple” – Petra Kuppers Embody

  4. DIY: what can you do for yourself? The Poeti(x) of Disability Activism DIY(x): feminists have long discussed the illusion of autonomic, independent ‘doing.’ As a feminist disability activist, writer and artist, I move in the realm of interdependence, not independence; collective creativity, not single genius; genealogy rather than history. I speak and live through organs that are two, and multiple. I move with a glide, my hand on my wheelchair. Feel the wheel run through the palm, the smoothness of the hand control, the continuity of touch, the contiguity of self and machine. Deform Deformation: DIY(x) the Stone Mars: take me to the battlefield, sister, take me and press me into service, let me do for myself what you have shown me. Activists, my body is on the line. This is a work of substitution, a prosodic form fills out under new pressure. The sewing machine, the wheelchair: the machines of gendered, dis/abled, racialised, historicized identity are at work on old poems. DIY yourself new clothes, empress, new subject positions, new ways of feeling scar tissue. Remediation: DIY(x) toward the new desiring machine Bioremedial intervention requires the trans formation of the toxic element, its ree valuation and rein sertion into the hol istic organ ism with calculated press Previous Page Next Page 1/2

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