Abstracts
Abstract
In this paper, we reflect upon the lessons learned in an intergenerational arts-based research workshop held in 2023 on Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe territory. The workshop brought together activists ages ten to one hundred, meaningfully including children and older adults as equal participants. Bridging writing on queer, crip, decolonial futures with scholarship on critical aging studies and childhood studies, we argue that radical intergenerationality is central to reworlding, or to imagining and making livable, liberatory futures. Centered around three vignettes from the workshop, this article explores how the presence of children and their intergenerational interactions offered teachings about accountability, joy, and honouring diverse body-minds. We conclude that, in a process of radical imagination, the youth offered us a glimpse of the intergenerational, decolonial, queer, crip futures we dream of and helped to create them in the space we shared.
Keywords:
- queer futures,
- crip futures,
- aging futures,
- decolonization,
- Intergenerationality,
- child studies,
- aging studies,
- futurity
Résumé
Dans cet article, nous réfléchissons aux enseignements tirés d’un atelier de recherche artistique intergénérationnel organisé en 2023, sur les terres des Michi Saagiig (Anishinaabeg de Mississauga). L’atelier rassemblait des activistes âgés de 10 à 100 ans, intégrant concrètement la participation équitable d’enfants et de personnes plus âgées. En rapprochant les écrits relatifs à l’avenir décolonisé, queer, et crip avec l’érudition des études primordiales portant sur le vieillissement et l’enfance, nous soutenons que l’intergénérationnalité radicale est indispensable pour reconstruire le monde ou pour s’imaginer et concrétiser un avenir viable et libératoire. Centré sur trois vignettes abordées dans l’atelier, cet article explore la façon dont la présence d’enfants et leurs interactions intergénérationnelles ont proposé des enseignements relatifs à la responsabilisation ainsi qu’à la joie et rendent hommage à la diversité de corps-esprit. Nous concluons que, dans un processus d’imagination radicale, les jeunes nous ont fourni un aperçu de l’avenir intergénérationnel, décolonisé, queer, et crip dont nous rêvons et nous ont aidés à le concrétiser dans l’espace que nous avons partagé.
Mots-clés :
- avenir pour les personnes âgées,
- avenir pour les personnes queers,
- avenir pour les personnes crip,
- décolonisation,
- intergénérationnalité,
- études de l’enfant,
- études de la personne âgée,
- futurité
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