Locking and Unlocking: The potentialities for intra-storying-activism in “this” baglady collective.

Albin-Clark, Jo; Ovington, Julie A; Isom, Philippa; Platt, Louise; Harding, Lucy; Carley, Faelan; Elwell, Alice; Pilson, Anna; Marshall, Charlotte E.; Smith, Sharon Louise

Abstract

In this article we disrupt extractivist and privileged individualised knowledge production by decentering the human ‘I’ to ‘we’ through storying. By entangling more-than-human bodies, ‘we’ is re-configured through a posthuman praxis of an iterative metamorphosing Baglady storying collective. Starting with the provocation of locking and unlocking, we story as a way to make sense of political and ethical affectivities that disrupt and interrupt everyday materialities and spatialities. From here, we speculate with movements of response-ability as “intra-activism” (Renold & Ringrose, 2017, 631). For us, storying puts in motion intra-action, speculation, calls to act, relationality and feminist community building that we frame as intra-storying-activism. Making and re-making stories with intra-storying-activism navigates non-hierarchical post-authorship to re-imagine, speculate-with and trouble the human from extractivist positions. By foregrounding relationality as a multiplying storying, we create playful, dynamic and generative spaces for knowledge making as a collective that both welcomes and provokes calls to act.

Citation

Albin-Clark, J., Ovington, J. A., Isom, P., Platt, L., Harding, L., Carley, F., …Smith, S. L. (2023). Locking and Unlocking: The potentialities for intra-storying-activism in “this” baglady collective. Journal of Posthumanism, 3(3), 251-268. https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v3i3.3015

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 15, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Nov 22, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-10
• Deposit Date: Feb 26, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 26, 2024
• Journal: Journal of Posthumanism
• Print ISSN: 2634-3576
• Electronic ISSN: 2634-3584
• Publisher: Transnational Press London
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 251-268
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v3i3.3015
• Keywords: General Medicine
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2287377