This episode is a crossover podcast featuring the launch event of Errant Journal's seventh issue, titled 'Embodying Resistance'. It includes a live interview with guest editor Ghiwa Sayegh, recorded at Framer Framed in Amsterdam on 3 November 2024.
This issue of Errant Journal aims to interrogate the role of the body in strategies of resistance from below. Taking Palestine as a starting point, the ongoing genocide committed by Israel and other colonial powers and the people’s continued struggle for liberation inform the issue’s thinking and praxis. From this political standpoint, it explores the ways in which bodies – that are sexualised, criminalised, racialised, crip – have been able to divert and subvert in order to fight back. To resist from the body is what crip theory tells us is a matter of need. It is a body that no longer fears deviation, specifically because of how cheap our lives are considered and how dangerous our futures are treated. It is about finding community and kinship when we are told we are alone.
Ghiwa Sayegh is an anarcha-queer writer, independent publisher, and archivist from Beirut. They are the founding editor of Kohl, a Journal for Body and Gender Research and a co-founder of Intersectional Knowledge Publishers.
This episode originally aired on Errant's channel on November 17, 2024. Issue #7 can be purchased here.