Activist affordances are inherently the products of a shrunken world that multiply its conditions of livability against all odds.

But when an activist affordance is choreographed, it is as if “inhabitable worlds” were already built, as if such “accessible futures” already existed, except that they exist in our actions, performances, and unfinished makings, not in some concretized object or infrastructure that may or may not be available in the locations that we happen to

We need a disability scholarship that moves beyond the question of how the built environment disables people, as the mantra of the social model goes, to how humans themselves injure and disable the environment through their crippling and destructive activities of building and unbuilding—activities that exacerbate the precarity of already disabled

the colonizer, the state, disaster capitalism, and other systems of oppression wield their power over the world’s affordances

activist affordances are about making up and making real worlds that we were not readily given by making do with what we have.

I was by no means a “distanced” ethnographer, “objectively” observing the field.

they are choreographed in our everyday lives, in and through our bodies, and with whatever we find around us.

Activist affordances bend the seemingly fixed forms, sand the hard edges, and give movement to the rigid layering of the world AS IF it were habitable, in as yet unimagined and undreamed-of ways.

The activist affordances that they create from within this shrinkage are not a question of choice or preference, but of necessity.