anti-ableism

Hamja Ahsan is a British artist, writer, curator and fanzine enthusiast. He is known for his raw critique of dominant culture and power structures, particularly in the context of cultural representation and identity. In this podcast, we talk Hamja Ahsan about the language of Shy Radicals, about neurodiversity and Islamophobia, and about the fictional utopian shy people’s Republic of Aspergistan. But also about fried chicken. Yes, mostly about fried chicken, really.

In FONS ÀUDIO #60, artist Hac Vinent takes us deep into her work "Hard Persistence". Her artistic practice resonates with a crip-queer and/or anti-ableist perspective: in short, a politics of life that advocates for those marginalised by a system that standardises and validates the body for the benefit of capitalism. In "Hard Persistence", subtitles, closed captions, displacements, hapticity and the cyborg body—via prostheses—come together in a fragmentary narrative that questions the essentialist idea of a fixed identity. The starting point is the premise that, in an ableist context such as ours, a body assigned as disabled is not read as a complete human body.

Ren Loren Britton is an artist, researcher, activist, and practitioner whose work focuses on reimagining access, and anti-ableist cultural practices exploring non-normative time, linguistic nonlinear structures, at the intersections of arts, technology and pedagogy holding spaces for diverse temporalities. In this podcast, we delve into Radical access, Access riders, Access servers and the edges of access. We also think of access as feelings, access as a mood and a-temporal desire. We also talk about stretching time, the slipperiness of the lived experience, trans*disabled lineages, histories of other past(s), the burden of remembering, the weight of datasets and unforgetting as an act of caring.