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Nancy Viva Davis Halifax
born on the north shore of new brunswick on mi’gma’gi territory halifax is a white settler \ queer & crip \ a celtic mongrel \ they lives & works on stolen & sacred lands \ heir to a complex history & present of dispossession & resurgence \
halifax’s writin’ lives in a world wherein they embodies disability & illness \ their praxis recognizes the arts as an affective force with the potential to provide partial & situated (Haraway) knowledge\s & processes which support our being “continuous with everything here on earth \ including & especially each other” (Biss) \ they imagines & is curious about life that is not lived as whole \ separate & invulnerable \ but rather as it is lived through deep connections & ways of knowin’ that are off-centre \ multiple \ sensuous \ for halifax the writing is an \ activist & embodied practice \ of the body & responsive to wounds written on body\s
Haraway, Donna. “Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective.” Feminist studies 14, no. 3 (1988): 575-599.
Biss, Eula. On immunity: an inoculation. Text Publishing, 2015.
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