Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia)

Yes, imperial benevolence, reinforcing ‘aid’ tropes, and all the while…

Picture of an Asian woman in a wheelchair, speaking to a white man with cane, next to a BSL interpreter, with a large screen to her right.

Sandy Ho: ‘Repeat after me: We are the past. We are the present. We are the future. We are forever.’

Our entire programming is dedicated to Alice Wong. Tk you, Sandy.

Join in online.

#DisabledLegacies #CripArt #DisabilityJustice

#12: Memory Work & Overground Railroads Celebrating Black History Month

“So much beautiful, profound and needed documentation and preservation of our culture, liberation movements, and lives is being done by small, community-based archives.” open.substack.com/pub/millione...

DISABLED LEGACIES: BEYOND ACCESS AND INCLUSION

Day 1 (FRI, Feb 27 Registration)

Day 2 (SAT, Feb 28 Registration)

& more, inc tix to Resting Museum’s FUNNY BONES AND GIGGLY GROANS: A CRIP HUMOUR WORKSHOP

Everything free and hybrid ✨

www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...

Holding memory for Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...

The Disabled Legacies Festival begins tonight!

‘Misfits: Disability as Method through Objects' Private View & Talk on the Life and Work of Donald Rodney’, w Keith Piper and Virginia Marano.

Tix & access info at link above. #CripArt #DisabilityJustice

Nearly cried when another Javanese woman presented her copy with a million sticky notes.

Smething Okey asked last night at reading was how do you know when a book is done.

Been thinking abt it, & one answer is: when you feel you have made a full exhale, &it can hopefully breathe for other ppl too.

Picture of a smiling Indonesian woman with long hair and a blue and white shirt, holding up the lilac book ANNAH, INFINITE, next to an enby Vietnamese person with red hair and a black leather jacket. Behind us are red and grey curtains.

Southbank Centre’s inaugural Indie Night was Truly Lovely. A full house for indie pubs!

Tx hosts Okey & Eliza, fellow readers Deepa, Vigdis & Tim, access staff & Tilted Axis’ Phuong Anh (in pic).

The love ANNAH, INFINITE was shown by the audience at signings afterwards means Everything. Makasih!

Hamza Jahanzeb Visit the post for more.

🙏🏼 @hamzajahanzeb.co.uk’s recent “No, Not Even Water”:

‘It is time the UK book trade recognises Muslim employees exist beyond Ramadan & starts making meaningful accommodations for those fasting in an industry built around long lunches & after-work drinks’

hamzajahanzeb.substack.com/p/no-not-eve...

We would like to acknowledge that it is ✨ Ramadhan ✨ (sparkles for my favourite time of year) and ppl may be fasting. We have provided food, but also rooms for people to rest in and get away from the crowd. See you this wkend for crip joy!

Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza…

Help Palestinian kids who were in prison!!! I'm back sharing regularly because we have a MONTH to fund this amazing project...but I know we can do it.

Therapy workshops, community-building & life-skills training, and a safe space. Help this work happen: chuffed.org/project/hmg

Additional tix have been released for this hybrid series of DISABLED LEGACIES events next wkend, 26-28 Feb! All free.

We cannot believe the lineup we managed to create.

Can’t wait to chair Abi Palmer’s event, and to chair a conversation btw Jill Casid and Rebecca Sanchez, ‘Disability as Method’.

🤍

Also wow, just heard abt the tic situation today, and just a reminder that disability justice is a global majority-coined and -led movement. Racial justice is baked into it and there is no excuse for racism!

After I heard about the incident a few hours ago, I spent some time reading about N-word tics and intrusive thoughts and what I came away with was a feeling of deepened anger about the way white supremacist society has associated “Black person” with this word so it’s there, in people’s brains

Thinking abt ppl in disability justice community past and present is so grounding.

I genuinely imagine them & think abt what they wld want me to say & do to protect myself against ableism, when it is easier to fight for others smetimes than speak up for yrself. These stars in my sky remind me.

OMG DEAN!!!! Yes yes yes!

Remember to release yourself from ablenormativity whenever possible, accept no substitutes for the wisdom and joy of disability justice.

Reminder to self—as there is so much we quietly put up with in the arts, in life, that is ableist by nature, and honestly hurts everyone except Nazism’s darlings.

Hope to get there!

Absolutely, there are such gorgeous ancient artefacts, and so varied across Southeast Asia.

We crush leaves underfoot every day.

It never ceases to amaze me that handwriting on a leaf—a leaf!—can last so many centuries.

Next WED Feb 25, 7.45PM London time, I’ll be reading, chatting and signing ANNAH, INFINITE at Southbank Centre’s Indie Night. 🤍

Tix here, wonderful line-up: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/ind...

All performances Speech-to-Text Transcribed, and more venue access info through link.

For anyone who is UK-based and interested, SOAS has a PhD scholarship for ‘Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives’.

Scholarship application deadline: 27 March 2026.

www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen...

@saltatchicago.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social

Pamatan! Its history is recorded in Kawi (Ancient Javanese), on palm leaves.

A white square with blue accents and a coffee cup logo in the corner, against which is a headshot of an Indonesian woman with a blue shirt and long hair, and black text: ‘Ekphrastic Experiments: an online poetry workshop with Khairani Barokka | Write from images, objects, sounds, and space. Discover how art reshapes rhythm and structure and opens poems to multiple presentations. Sunday, February 28, 1pm’.

Can’t stop teaching poetry when I can, it seems, it is just too much fun.

Come join EKPHRASTIC EXPERIMENTS, an online wshop as part of the Tsaa with Roma series ✨

We’ll be inspired by (absolute) cinema, visual arts, performance art…

Sunday FEB 28, 1PM UK time:

www.romalynante.com/event-detail...

“The oppressor can never be trusted as historian. Our task is preservation. Collective memory is a liberation practice. Remember and tell it.” 🔥🔥🔥

- Cole Arthur Riley

(Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough by Roderick Douglass)

All Filton 24 activists have now been acquitted of aggravated burglary.

This government has done everything it can to demonise the Palestine movement. It has failed.

History will be kind to those who tried to stop the genocide. It will condemn those who aided and abetted it.

Can the legacies of Disability Art and Culture take us beyond “access” and “inclusion”? Can Disability Justice help us create and lead all of us to live better lives?

This edition is co-convened by Kenny Fries, Khairani Barokka and Sria Chatterjee.

In person or via Zoom, free registration, Feb 27

My heart sank.

Tk you for reminding me to post this thru you! Hope you can join us.