Month: Mar 2023

Hello Again…

Extending a limn as an act of (re)connection, (re)engagement & (re)introduction

The above video features a music track titled, Phantom Limb Pt. 2 from the 2002 motion picture, Luckiest Girl Alive. Music composed by Linda Perry, screenplay by Jessica Knoll, directed by Mike Barker. The music track plays as a previous black and white version of the logo is displayed with accompanying text explaining that the blog is being re-titled from: Feminist Limns: An Embodied Archive of Intersectional forms of Access to: Feminist Limns: A Disabled Archive of Intersectional Struggles for Access. The new title is accompanied with a coloured version of the original logo reflecting the changes in titling; and promises forthcoming blog posts focused on centering disability as a concept, as well as an emotional and embodied reality that will explore lived affects of ableism. The instrumental track playing concurrently with text features a melancholic, yet hopeful tune meant to echo the combined and equal pull of joy and struggle of navigating an able-bodied world with a disabled body.

Following an extended absence (I have not published a blog post since October 2021), I have decided to punctuate my return to the blog-sphere with a re-titling of my blog to: Feminist Limns: A Disabled Archive of Intersectional Struggles of Access. This is a deliberate choice, as the text in the video explains:

FEMINIST LIMNS…

Will remain anchored in feminist thought. The change in title signals a foregrounding of disability as a concept and as an emotional and embodied reality. My goal is to explore the lived and felt affects of disability and ableism. Forthcoming blog posts will explore the emotional labour–struggle, shame, melancholy; as well as joy, pride and awe of being disabled.

Ev Baczewska

While I have never been disingenuous or inauthentic in the limning of my experience as a disabled woman, my voice did not reflect an emotional granularity necessary to truly depict the seemingly often oppositional sensory experience of: struggle and joy, awe and shame, pride and disability; and human and (anti-)heroine. Forthcoming entries will reflect an activism that is messy, truths that are uncomfortable, realities that are jarring, and emotional journeys that intersect and intertwine, and refuse to accept ableist tendencies.

It feels good to be back…

With continued shared refusal,

Ev Baczewska XO