Further Reflections on Ako Aotearoa Defunding 2025: As the unexpected closure of Ako Aotearoa leaves a void in tertiary teaching leadership, we ask: what happens when the centre for excellence disappears—and what could rise to replace it?| 🌀thisisGRAEME
We co-design and collaborate with this multi-racial, intergenerational, cross race, gender and sexality network led by healing/health practitioners, community historians & abolitionists to inform and shape a vision for collective care and safety that seeks to transform and intervene on medical violence, harms, and abuses rooted in ableism, racism and capitalism within the Medical Industrial Complex. We do this through the creation of popular education tools, workshops & trainings to build pow...| changingFrequencies
The performance opens with the memory of the poking, prodding and painful extraction of medical racism & ableism that has pervasively tested on people living with neurodivergent, physical, developmental, emotional disabilities and chronic illness; and Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC); queer, trans, gender non-conforming & intersex; migrant & refugee, and incarcerated/Institutionalized communities for centuries since slavery and colonization to now. In our blood, bones and memories ...| changingFrequencies
