It’s Time to Confront the Erasure of Disability in Hip-Hop (Above: Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen”, 2014) “When I was little…I had got into an accident and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes,” rapper Fetty…
Marc Quinn, 1964–
Marc Quinn, a contemporary artist and sculpture, works arises from a deep fascination with existence. The materials are both form and content in which he uses art history to investigate and expand and broaden our thinking about the essence of…
Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
Lord Byron by Ellen Castelow ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’. That is how Lady Caroline Lamb described her lover George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron and one of the greatest Romantic poets in English literature. As famous for his scandalous…
Early Graphic Illustration, Comic Strips and Disability
The history of printing goes back to the duplication of images by means of stamps in very early times. The use of round seals for rolling an impression into clay tablets goes back to early Mesopotamian civilization before 3000 BCE, they feature…
William Utermohlen, 1933–2007
William Utermohlen 1933-2007-dementia Self Portrait 1967 American artist William Utermohlen received a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer’s disease in 1995, at the age of 61. For the next five years, as his dementia worsened, he used his art to track the…
James Castle, 1899–1977
James Castle 1899-1977 Profoundly Deaf USA Artist James Castle was born September 25, 1899, in the small mountain town of Garden Valley, Idaho to Francis J. Castle and Mary Nora Scanlon. The fifth of seven children, Castle was born two…
Riva Lehrer, 1958–
https://3arts.org/artist/riva-lehrer/ Riva Lehrer (b. Cincinnati 1958). Artist, writer and curator, whose work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body, especially in explorations of cultural depictions of disability. Ms. Lehrer’s art work has been seen in venues…
Frida Kahlo, 1907–1954
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International Day of Disabled People
International Day of Disabled People – 3rd December – is a key date every year in celebrating the lives and achievements of disabled people around the world. Disability Action in Islington (DAI), Islington Personal Budgets Network (IPBN) & Islington Disabled…
A-Z Offensive disablist language and origins
July 7, 2016 by Richard Rieser A to Z of Offensive Disablist Language Afflicted ORIGIN: Suggests that higher force has cast the person down (‘affligere’ is Latin for to knock down, to weaken), or is causing them pain or suffering.…