the validity of your embodied knowledge | RRR | 2023 | NL

A space where art is on the walls, mats and pillows are on the floor. A Rotterdam Reading Room cargo bike full of books is set up. Stools are st up for people to sit on. Two people are embracing each other.
The feet and legs of two people seated on a mat; one wearing colorful blue, white and yellow pants. The other wearing tan socks and tan and blue striped pants. Book. Piece of paper in hands.
White page on beige background. Title page and text. White page on beige background.. Article. Title: "It's the culture stupid: understanding of modern medical practice."
White page on beige background. Title page and text. Tracing paper on top of article. New title: "the stupid practice."

Somewhere between the crip and the temporarily-able-bodied folks, we will make space for varied ways of knowing.

Centering around dialogues of lived experiences, we will collectively sense/work toward access, by gathering in ways comfortable to varied abilities.

Offering a place where we can sit, lie down and rest our head for a moment, or stimm it out, or express ourselves - make art.

Those joining us will be guided through forms of sharing that are fluid entrances for re-imagining our interdependent body-minds.

Industrial space with ladders and huge tubes. A projection screen with the projected text "Invite you to always move Always".
Reading Room Rotterdam cargo bike filled with a fresh batch of books.
Screenshot of a zoom call between two people. An Asian non-binary persoon with red rimmed glasses, earphones. A femme-presenting white person with red shoulder length hair and large brown glasses. The latter seems mid-sentence and raises their hand.
Photo of a facebook post. Quote Clarice Lispector: "And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand." Heart emoticon clicked.
Photo from train interior, sticker on window pane indicating it is a silent train carriage. 
photo's: sylvia arenas  |  personal collection
A man with dark shoulder length curly hair and a full beard can be seen from the shoulders up. Subtitle quote: "The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze."
Two books and an essay, on a desk. Brown bookcover, black title: 'Touch the Future, A Manifesto in Essays' by John Lee Clark. Book 'Crip Authorship, Disability as Method' has little orange post-its. White paper with essay title on it.
Rose colored book cover, with hot pink title on a wooden table. Radical Intimacy, by Sophie K. Rosa.
Photo of instagram post. Window with city view. Red letters on window pane, quote: "Be brave enough to suck at something new."
Screen shot of zoom call between two people. An Asian non-binary person wearing a baseball cap, black turtle neck and brown shirt, black hair. A femme-presenting white person with red curly hair, brown large glasses and a green wool stole.
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