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Vol. 5 (2024): In Flux: Experiences of Social and Political Betweenness

Purple Basil Lemonade: Community Rituals for Crip Pasts / Presents / Futures

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25071/2563-3694.142
Submitted
January 12, 2024
Published
2024-09-03

Abstract

This piece is a collection of stories and reflections on community, loss, memory, access, rest, and dream(ing), developed through the process of making and sharing purple basil lemonade. This practice serves as a method of re-turning (to) the past, refusing the present, and dreaming alternative futures–a re-mixing of temporalities, always grounded in relation, always in an ongoing process of rebecoming. It is a ritual for storytelling, community, memory work, and dreamwork in the era of COVID-19, a time marked by the normalization of eugenic discourses and the erasure of disabled people from the public sphere.