Feeling burnt out, disconnected, or creatively stuck due to screens? Unwiring Our Bodies is a podcast for Disabled BIPOC folks exploring how tech both disembodies and creates access. Hosted by TQ of The Rewilding, we unpack how oppressive systems use screens, speed, and surveillance to harm us, and how we intentionally reclaim tech as a pathway to rest, creativity, and embodiment for collective liberation. Tune in for reflections and free mini-practices. Come back to your body, your rhythm, your aliveness. Let’s unwire together.
How Are You Honoring Non-Verbal, Ancestral Connection in a Highly Verbal World?
Ayana Zaire Cotton shares personal stories of non-verbal episodes, exploring the embodied experience, shedding internalized shame, and honoring ancestral communication methods to expand connection, especially for disabled QTIBIPOC individuals.
26 Jun 2025
Autistic burnout but still here
TQ discusses navigating autistic burnout, emphasizing the necessity of rest and self-acceptance, while also supporting Nara, a disabled Palestinian friend, through fundraising efforts in this interview episode.
9 Jun 2025
Your Disabled Wardrobe & Rest Nests Can Become Sites of Liberation w/ Sky Cubacub
TzeQing interviews Sky Cubacub, creator of Rebirth Garments, about designing wearables for trans, queer, and disabled individuals and how fashion and accessible environments foster liberation and well-being.
2 Jun 2025
How Do We Sustain Ourselves As Empire Crumbles?
The hosts discuss sustaining ourselves and each other as systems fail, reviewing their recent art workshop fundraiser, and prioritizing access intimacy and grounding.
26 May 2025
Your Disabled Grief is Sacred Technology
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha discusses disabled grief as a technology and how it can be applied to living in a polycrisis, revealing the crip technology of surviving capitalism in this interview.
20 May 2025
An Ode to Disabled Tech and Creativity
In today’s episode, we talk about:
What is our embodied sense of liberation when using technology?
Rest Nests for Nara: Join us on May 28 (https://subscribepage.io/restnestnara) for this virtual embodied art workshop to raise funds for our disabled Palestinian friend, Nara
What does disabled liberation mean or look like?
The importance of insisting on disabled creativity
The first step to stepping into the fullness of our disabled creativity (and why it’s not as easy as it looks)
A 1-minute embodied art ritual to “sculpt” crip time in our bodies
Closing on May 24: The Rewilding Zine open call for disabled BIPOC folks about tech as access/disconnection - Submit your work here. (https://www.rewilding.cc/zine)
LINKS
Episode transcript (https://www.rewilding.cc/blog/an-ode-to-disabled-tech-and-creativity)
The Rewilding Newsletter (http://therewilding.substack.com)
CITATIONS
Ayana Zaire Cotton, Seeda School (https://www.seedaschool.com/)
Tricia Hersey (http://www.triciahersey.com/)
Mia Mingus, Access Intimacy (https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future is Disabled (https://brownstargirl.org/the-future-is-disabled/)
Sky Cubacub, Rebirth Garments (http://rebirthgarments.com)
Ellen Samuels, Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time (https://www.dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/5824/4684)
Sins Invalid (https://sinsinvalid.org/)
I Wanna Be With You Everywhere art show (https://whitney.org/events/I-wanna-be-with-you-everywhere)
Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill: S2 Ep10: Ask Us Anything with Prentis and Eddie, Jun 21, 2021 (https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/becoming-the-people-podcast-with-prentis-hemphill/id1519965068?i=1000526278030&r=411)
Green Dreamer: Abby Reyes: Engaging ‘the slow work’ in the face of urgency and crises, May 13, 2025 (https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/green-dreamer-seeding-change-towards-collective-healing/id1382371884?i=1000708296795)
12 May 2025
How Tech Creates Access & Connection For Disabled BIPOC Bodies
In today’s episode, we explore:
What is our embodied experience of tech creating access and connection for us as disabled BIPOC folks?
What is our felt sense of Mia Mingus’s “access intimacy”?
My own experiences of tech creating access to community, direct action, activism, healthcare, embodiment, income, food, and medicine as a disabled BIPOC person
Black disabled activist Vilissa Thompson’s writing on how tech helps foreground the overlooked voices of multiply-marginalized, disabled folks, helps us access community, and provides an avenue for activism with real-world impact
Disabled Chinese-American activist’s Alice Wong’s ideas of freedom, sense of self, and digital alchemy on the internet, from Moya Bailey’s Digital Alchemy podcast
A 1-minute embodied art practice on embodying in-person and online connections. Share your creation here for my zine open call due May 24! Contribute here: rewilding.cc/zine (http://rewilding.cc/zine)
An invitation to Rest Nests for Nara, an online embodied art workshop on May 28 to raise funds for our disabled Palestinian friend, Nara - facilitated by me and Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments. Register here: bit.ly/restnestnara (http://bit.ly/restnestnara)
SUPPORT MY WORK at therewilding.substack.com (therewilding.substack.com)
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: https://www.rewilding.cc/blog/how-tech-creates-access-connection-for-disabled-bipoc-bodies (https://www.rewilding.cc/blog/how-tech-creates-access-connection-for-disabled-bipoc-bodies)
CITATIONS
Mia Mingus on access intimacy: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/ (https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/)
How Technology Is Forcing the Disability Rights Movement into the Twenty-First Century by Vilissa Thompson https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/30420/24776 (https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/30420/24776)
Global Day of Action for Palestine May 15, 2025: https://bdsmovement.net/news/nakba-77-palestinians-call-global-day-action-15-may-2025 (https://bdsmovement.net/news/nakba-77-palestinians-call-global-day-action-15-may-2025)
Tricia Hersey: http://www.triciahersey.com/ (http://www.triciahersey.com/)
Generative Somatics: http://generativesomatics.org/ (http://generativesomatics.org/)
Digital Alchemy - Alice Wong, Digital Spaces as Freedom for Disabled Folks: https://digital-alchemy.transistor.fm/episodes/digital-alchemy-alice-wong-digital-spaces-as-freedom-for-disabled-folks/transcript (https://digital-alchemy.transistor.fm/episodes/digital-alchemy-alice-wong-digital-spaces-as-freedom-for-disabled-folks/transcript)
5 May 2025
Intro + How Tech Systemically Disembodies Us
Introducing Unwiring Our Bodies, a podcast about what it means to come back to ourselves in an increasingly digital world that pulls us away from our bodies.
In this episode:
Introducing the host, TzeQing (they/them) and their creative, somatic lineages
What it means for us to feel disembodied by tech
The systemic roots of tech-driven disembodiment
1-minute embodied art practice you can do anywhere
Rewilding Zine #1 now open for submissions! (https://www.rewilding.cc/zine)
Links:
Help my Palestinian friend Nara here (https://chuffed.org/project/disablednara)
Episode Transcript (https://open.substack.com/pub/therewilding/p/unwiring-our-bodies-for-liberation?r=29w20&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true)
The Rewilding Newsletter (https://therewilding.substack.com/)
Citations:
https://www.seedaschool.com/ (https://www.seedaschool.com/)
https://rebirthgarments.com/ (https://rebirthgarments.com/)
https://www.eroticsofliberation.com/practicefield (https://www.eroticsofliberation.com/practicefield)
https://www.findingourwaypodcast.com/ (https://www.findingourwaypodcast.com/)
https://generativesomatics.org/ (https://generativesomatics.org/)
https://oranglaut.sg/ (https://oranglaut.sg/)
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
Access Intimacy by Mia Mingus (https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/)
Who has been a guest on Unwiring Our Bodies
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Ayana Zaire Cotton
Sky Cubacub
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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