Sick Girl* Strategies is an interdisciplinary project, performative archive, DIY publication, and online toolkit for sick languages, bodies, and tactics. It gathers terms, gestures, symptoms, medical fragments, diaries, autotheories, scores, images, and survival strategies, and reworks them through text, visual material, actions, publishing, and necessary exchange within sick and chronically ill communities.

The project began with the open call Girl*, are you tired?︎︎︎, which invited sick, tired, disabled, exhausted, chronically ill, and institutionally over-read bodies to contribute their languages, symptoms, terms, strategies, and fragments. Around 140 contributions from across the world arrived: an outpouring of sick knowledge that could not remain a single document, but demanded a structure of its own.

From this, SG*S developed as both a website and a publication. The website functions as an evolving archive and public platform for the collected sick terms, gestures, and contributions. The publication, Chronic Superpositions: Sick Girl* Strategies , written and imagined by Nadja Kracunovi, developed in collaboration with designer Camillo Londoño Fernández, takes the form of a mutant DIY book.  The publication is composed of several volumes that can be downloaded, printed, cut, folded, assembled, misprinted, exchanged, or circulated separately. It refuses the idea of one clean, stable book-object. Instead, it behaves as a fragmented toolkit: something to be used, carried, damaged, reassembled, and mutated further.

SICK GIRL STRATEGIES* includes an online archive, a multi-volume DIY publication, sick terms, contributor fragments, printing instructions, scores, images, textual strategies, and future public formats. Throughout 2026, the project continues through online readings, zines, collective exchanges, archival activations, and further forms of circulation. It remains a platform for sick language, chronic knowledge, exhaustion, refusal, and repair.

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