Purple Basil Lemonade

This piece is a collection of stories and reflections on community, loss, memory, access, rest, and dream(ing), developed through the process of making and sharing purple basil lemonade. This practice serves as a method of re-turning (to) the past, refusing the present, and dreaming alternative futures–a re-mixing of temporalities, always grounded in relation, always in an ongoing process of rebecoming. It is a ritual for storytelling, community, memory work, and dreamwork in the era of COVID-19, a time marked by the normalization of eugenic discourses and the erasure of disabled people from the public sphere.