Locking and Unlocking: the potentialities for intra-storying-activism in “this” Baglady collective

Albin-Clark, Jo, Ovington, Julie, Ipsom, Philippa, Platt, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9063-1110, Harding, Lucy, Carley, Fealan, Elwell, Alice, Nicholl Antipas, Philippa, Pilson, Anna, Marshall, Charlotte and Smith, Sharon (2023) Locking and Unlocking: the potentialities for intra-storying-activism in “this” Baglady collective. Journal of Posthumanism, 3 (3). pp. 251-268. ISSN 2634-3576

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Abstract

In this article, we disrupt extractivist and privileged individualised knowledge production by decentering the human ‘I’ to ‘we’ through storying. Inspired by LeGuin (2019) and Haraway’s (2016) narrative baglady figuration, we explore a Baglady storytelling praxis. This means putting to work posthuman theories with the more-than-human, where knowledge-making is generated through the intra-actions of our collective's storying. Starting with the provocation of locking and unlocking, we story to make sense of political and ethical affectivities that disrupt and interrupt everyday materialities and spatialities. From here, we speculate with movements of response-ability as “intra-activism” (Renold & Ringrose, 2017, 631). For us, storying puts in motion intra-action, speculation, calls to act, relationality, and feminist community building that we frame as intra-storying-activism. Making and re-making stories within intra-storying-activism navigates non-hierarchical post-authorship to re-imagine, speculate with, and trouble the human from extractivist positions. By foregrounding relationality as a multiplying storying, we create playful, dynamic, and generative spaces for knowledge-making as a collective that both welcomes and provokes calls to act.