Meet the Makers: Ren Loren Britton

A screenshot of the website “Indexing for Disability Justice: blocks, plates, boards, volumes and shafts” is shown. The website appears with a light green background and a mobius strip imposed ontop of it. On the mobius strip are a series of doodled icons. There is also a ‘conversation’ and ‘about’ page. The fonts used are Lorenza Böttner from Nat Pyper & Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille Institute.
A screenshot of the website “Indexing for Disability Justice: blocks, plates, boards, volumes and shafts”

In this talk Ren will share their ongoing artistic indexing project called “Indexing for Disability Justice.” They will share an essay they are writing that works on tracing agency, via a few stories and hir-stories from the index. These artifacts speak of technical trans*crip pasts that enable other interdependencies and priorities for community connection and technical making today. They will speak about their practice as a research based artist-designer and speak about the politics and practices that make their work and worlding possible.

Ren Loren Britton appears on the far right of the image holding a banner with (from left to right) Di Otto, Joan Nestle, Emily Jones and Goda Klumbytė. The banner reads "fascism thrives by scapegoating our differences - DYKES & ALLIES DAAFT AGAINST FASCISM & TRANSPHOBIA". On the left there is an Australian Aboriginal Flag and an Australian Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Flag. On the right there is a Palestinian Flag and an Intersex Inclusive Progressive Pride Flag. The group stands outside in a garden, it is green and sunny - everyone smiles and there's a cute dog, Cello in the arms of Di.
Ren Loren Britton appears on the far right of the image holding a banner with (from left to right) Di Otto, Joan Nestle, Emily Jones and Goda Klumbytė.

Ren Loren Britton is a trans-disciplinary artist-designer dancing with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. They make multi sensorial media installations. Trans*ness in their practice considers what would be needed so that —pleasure for all— would be possible. They attend to plural hir- his- her- stories and presents of social and technical infrastructures making lives accessible and possible.

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Meet the Makers is a series by The Creative Humanities Academy, a platform that fosters collaboration and knowledge exchange between cultural and creative professionals and academic researchers and students.

This event is supported by the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG), a platform for gender sensitive and postcolonial research.

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