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The Paralyzed World War II Veterans Who Invented Wheelchair Basketball

By David Davis — 2020

The Paralympics had not yet been invented. These veterans were sports trailblazers. They were medical miracles as well.

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Catering to My Environment as a Parent with a Disability

Because I’m at ease with my disability and have grown to understand my limitations, it’s been easier for me to figure out solutions to what might be everyday obstacles to other people.

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Christine Rudd
2017
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Access Denied: Will Art Ever Learn to Embrace Disability?

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.

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Siobhán Forshaw
2021
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‘I Had to Learn How to Feel Anger’: Dandy on the Demands Disabled Musicians Face

On her debut album The Cycle, the Shropshire singer-songwriter takes on a ‘broken system’ that underestimates the vibrancy of disabled lives.

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Liam O'Dell
2021
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How a Revered Studio for Artists with Disabilities Is Surviving at a Distance

Creative Growth is a place for artists with disabilities to gather, work, talk, and think without fear of reproach or dismissal.

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Dan Piepenbring
2020
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NFTs By Disabled Creatives Breaking Moulds and Making Profits

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.

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Keely Cat-Wells
2021
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Instagram Disabled Artist’s @metaverse Handle After Facebook Rebranded to Meta

Thea-Mai Baumann had used the account for more than a decade but it suddenly vanished, taking all her work with it.

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Maya Yang
2021
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Aaron Rose Philip on Manifesting the Future of Black Creativity

The model, artist and photographer made history when she walked the Moschino runway in her chair this season. She’s also the first creative we’re spotlighting from the BTF100, debuting today.

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Ashley Tyner
2021
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Disabled LGBTQ+ Creatives Imagine a Better Tomorrow

In the fall of 2020 the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced an 18-month initiative to increase the visibility of disabled creatives and elevate their voices.

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Jacob Anderson-Minshall
2021
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How Lorenza Bottner’s Prescient Art Created Space for Disabled and Trans People

At Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the touted art festival that takes place once every five years in Kassel, it was an artist heretofore unknown to much of the art world who stole the show: Lorenza Böttner, a German painter, dancer, and performance artist who, in the ’80s and ’90s, began...

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Alex Greenberger
2021
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The Mystery of Why Some People Become Sudden Geniuses

There’s mounting evidence that brain damage has the power to unlock extraordinary creative talents. What can this teach us about how geniuses are made?

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Zaria Gorvett
2018
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