Activist affordances are performative microacts/-arts through which disabled people enact and bring into being the worlds that are not already available to them, the worlds they need and wish to dwell in.

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

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

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

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

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

What happens when we think of disability, affordances, and performance together, as related terms? What can this conceptual work allow us to do? What new openings can it provide us with when it comes to the intersection of disability and design? And how does this intersectional attention turn us toward a further intersection with environmental

I propose the theory of activist affordances in order to name and recognize the tiny, everyday artful battles of disabled people for more livable worlds that otherwise remain unaccounted for.