Locking and Unlocking: The Potentialities for Intra-Storying-Activism in “This” Baglady Collective

Abstract

In this article we disrupt extractivist and privileged individualised knowledge production by decentering the human ‘I’ to ‘we’
through storying. Inspired by Le Guin (2019) and Haraway’s (2016) narrative baglady figuration, we explore a Baglady
storytelling praxis. This means putting to work posthuman theories with the more-than-human, where knowledge-making is
generated through the intra-actions of our collective’s storying. Starting with the provocation of locking and unlocking, we story to
make sense of political and ethical affectivities that disrupt and interrupt everyday materialities and spatialities. From here, we
speculate with movements of response-ability as “intra-activism” (Renold & Ringrose, 2017, 631). For us, storying puts in
motion intra-action, speculation, calls to act, relationality, and feminist community building that we frame as intra-storyingactivism.