SickBabe Workshop, Suriya Aisha
Making friends with failure.
As part of our 2020 Artist Commissions, Suriya Aisha created two workshops for SickBabes – (women and non binary people who identify as being sick or disabled) to be together and discuss what it feels like to constantly ‘failing’ your own expectations.
Visual note-taker Jae Tallawah created these records of the workshops so that others can also try out Suriya’s suggestions for making friends with failure.
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Small acts of self compassion.
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What small acts of self compassion have you done in the past week to take care of yourself?
Does failure exist?
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When you live with invisible and/or chronic illness, a ‘win’ can look very different to what many people expect.
Capitalism conditions us to think we either win or lose.
We can re-frame our relationship with failure by using new words to define it … like ‘wobbly lemon moments’.
Little Letters
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Write an ‘in case of emergency’ letter, filled with things that a future you would want/need to hear in a ‘wobbly lemon moment’.