*FLINTA: Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Agender
Routes and P(l)aces is an intervention investigating FLINTA ways of knowing and being in the world. The practice devises walking interventions on English Commons guided and reflected in a printed zine and an anarchive.
This site, routesandplaces.co.uk is an anarchive.
As a critical inquiry it is an exploration of FLINTA lives via interactive walking activities, exploring concepts such as compulsory heterosexuality, relationship anarchy, ‘psychic needs’ for identity and archive, and ecofeminist, lesbian and queer frames of belonging. This intervention uncovers those worlds through immersive mobile engagements on the rights-of-ways, dark woods, open moors, sub/urban greenspaces and salty paths that compose English common lands. By doing this we discover tools to re/sensitize ourselves to the world around us through interactive engagements with FLINTA lives, imagined and real, represented in literature, visual arts, auto/ethnography, public record, private memoirs, performance, and archival sources. The aspiration is to devise tools for mindful engagement with the land/scape around us in order to discover an organic means to self-actualisation that maintains integrity and adaptability in a constantly re/forming world.
As a creative practice, this intervention is a collection of traces of what was, what is, and what might be collected while devising walks, developing zines, and generating historical and theoretical writings. Here you will find signposts, definitions, and tools to contextualize and enrich engagement with the walks and zines of Routes and P(l)aces. There maps and GPX files, essays and explanations, photos and videos, field notes, journals, prose and other forms of FLINTA encounters with the world …
The anarchive is a work-in-progress, a countermap of encounters. It is neither catalouge or instructional. This collection of traces and speculation enriches the zine and scholarly critical outputs. It is here ffor reference, provocation, and invitation to engage further.
The ground shifts, entries adapt, as new routes are found.
Some starting points …
Notebooks and Essays
Traces of motion & site
About
Activity Guides Adrienne Rich archives Audre Lorde Barnes Barnes Waypoints commons Compulsory design doubt FLINTA malvern neurodivergence Ordinary pivot prompts Radclyffe Hall Recces Region Guide Richmond-Upon-Thames Richmond-Upon-Thames – Fieldnotes Richmond-Upon-Thames – Prepersonal Essays Richmond-Upon-Thames Speculative Theory Route Haunting Route Haunting Guide Sara Ahmed Virginia Woolf Walk-in-Progress Walk Guides when in doubt
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