HOW WE MAKE IT: Disability Justice, Autoimmunity, Community Main Menu Navigation Explaining the HWMI Collective & SCALAR Introduction Megan Moodie Lingering Introduction to subsection Aligning part of syllabus of the body Crafting Photo of HWMIC Authors HWMIC members: top, left to right: Megan Moodie, Cynthia Ling Lee, Pato Hebert, Marina Peterson, Nikita Simpson; bottom, left to right: Rachel C. Lee, Tammy Ho, Dr. Alexandra Juhasz, Charles L. Briggs, Sharon Daniel

Counter Measures Annotation

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In April 2022, our collective gathered at Pitzer College to view the extraordinary exhibit called Lingering by Pato Hebert, a sumptuous assemblage of contrasting textures: from gilded surgical masks, to bubble font plastic mirrored letters on the floor, to documentary photos printed on silk, to spoons hewed from eucalyptus wood. The image on the left is detail from Hebert’s series of wooden spoons called Counter Measures in homage to Christine Miserandino’s spoon theory, and carved from eucalyptus salvaged from a downed limb that fell in a storm in Elysian Park. 

Our Lingering path begins with Alex Juhasz and Hebert’s collaboration on Long Hauling, which reflects on the experience of COVID’s prolonged effects from two longtime AIDS organizers, then meanders to Sharon Daniel's digital art piece drawing from news headlines and audio recordings about the spread of the pandemic in prisons, jails, and detention centers from March 2020 to December 2021. The path doubles back to Rachel Lee’s account of her own closeted disabilities and a team project on environmental illnesses begun in 2018 prior to the COVID pandemic; and then loops around to the revised kinesthetics that dancer Cynthia Ling Lee poetically enacts and shares as care work for the chronically fatigued.
 

Contents of this annotation:

  1. from the Exhibit LINGERING

Contents of this path:

  1. Long Hauling
  2. EXPOSED
  3. Lingering with the Environmentally Ill
  4. On Efficiency