By Romeo Vitelli — 2014
Can increased creativity be a coping strategy for dealing with trauma?
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CLEAR ALL
This is not about meeting criteria and ticking boxes, it’s about finally creating the generous, plural and radical art world that many of us want and need.
More than 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have been left partially or totally disabled from physical or psychological wounds received during their service. Some of them compete in the Defense Department Warrior Games and find a place to continue to overcome.
It is no doubt that NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are changing the way we view, buy and sell art, but are they also having a hand in the way that we define Disability? The medium has opened up doors for artists who have previously been marginalized and restricted from getting rich off their own art.
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” ~ Bruce Lee The premise of his philosophy was efficiency—complete and utter efficiency of the soul.
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There’s no right or wrong trajectory for adapting to disability.
The Paralympics had not yet been invented. These veterans were sports trailblazers. They were medical miracles as well.
This guide is for people who are considering working with and for disabled people, perhaps for the very first time. It includes a brief introduction to disability justice, and then focuses on artistic and pedagogical work with the disability community.
Netflix and the BBC will work together, in an unprecedented move, to promote disabled creatives on and off screen.
Model Jillian Mercado is using her platform to open doors for other creatives with disabilities who may otherwise get overlooked in the fashion industry.
Thea-Mai Baumann had used the account for more than a decade but it suddenly vanished, taking all her work with it.