A Tendr Scene: VR as Visionary Reality, Prototyping Radical Care and Queer Futurities

Abstract

An excerpt from a virtual reality teleplay that’s been transformed into IRL blueprints for a QTBIPoC mental health respite center + A crip love letter/fantastical rendering of a first date indefinitely postponed by starcrossed metaphysical planes/grief therapy poem/requiemic prayer/Ancestral offering and litany of Future wishes, this piece facilitates an ongoing process of queer healing by experimenting with time travel and VR (“Visionary Reality,” remixed from Walidah Imarisha’s “Visionary Fiction”). Stacey Park Milbern’s words and spirit make an appearance in the accessible font, Comic Sans. The excerpt of Tendr’s fourth episode is included in a landscaped orientation as a Disability Justice praxis of defamiliarization, compelling [more abled/sighted] readers to shift the way they see/literally hold a copy of this writing. F O R U M