Zine launch: THE WORLD IS A WOUND- on Palestinian liberation and Disability Justice

Fresh out of the printer, we are bringing a zine titled "THIS WORLD IS A WOUND: on Palestinian Liberation and Disability Justice". This zine illuminates the enmeshment of Palestinian liberation and Disability Justice in an assemblage of poetic, pragmatic, and powerful contributions. Following an open call in the spring of 2024, ""This world is a wound"" is a collection of crip wisdom.

We want to affirm the ways in which writing, art-making, and poetry are integral and powerful parts of organizing. From our couches, our bedrooms, our hospital beds, our homes, some of us in relative safety and distance, we witness and organize. We know that we cannot afford to leave anyone behind in our organizing. We need all of us, with all of our different skills of care, community building, and justice work. Here, in the heart of the empire, we commit to the call of the Palestinian people for justice and liberation, with every bodymind.

The genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza and the other illegally occupied territories has been described as a mass-disabling event. How do our aching, exhausted, and disabled bodies contribute to the struggle for Palestinian Liberation? We will need to scale up radical care and mutual aid, to weave into the tapestry of a free Palestine. How can crip/chronically ill/neurodiverse/mad perspectives offer these critical survival skills?

This zine is an offering to crip/chronically ill/neurodiverse/mad folks and others: it holds calls to action as well as our exhaustion, gentle attempts at healing, care and courage.

We would love to launch this zine with a workshop and a collective reading. Together, we lend our voices to some of the present texts, exchange crip wisdom in conversation, in a restful and caring atmosphere. We want to offer a space to be in conversation with both abled and disabled/neurodiverse/chronically ill people, to reflect on our skills to contribute to the Palestinian Liberation struggle.

COVID info

In order to make the event accessible to disabled and immunocompromised members of our community, we ask everyone to do a covid test before entering the launch room, and to wear a well-fitting, FFP2 or KN95 mask. There will be free/donation masks and tests for everyone at the QUACK stand and launch entrance. If wearing a mask isn’t accessible for you, or if you have any symptoms (sore throat, runny nose, headache, fever, digestive issues...) we kindly ask that you don't attend this zine launch. <3