In this week's reading we read the article Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, "I Wanna be with you Everywhere (And I Am): Disability Justice Art as Freedom Portal," in The Future is Disabled (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022), 183-196. In the reading Leah talks about bringing justice to disabled artists. Has stated in the reading," (one disabled artist in an all-abled show; lots of earnest, “good for them!” abled claps) and “Do you want to say more about your disability?” models that are all disabled artists often get when we try and get our work into non- disabled space." When it comes to disabled people, people always see's the disability not the person themselves. They are treated different along with what they do, whether that is an art piece, or maybe archery. They are rarely treating has their own person, asked to represent all disabled people, or maybe even judge differently. When it really shouldn't be about that, but rather about the artist.
Kinda like the image above. Though the image does have a story that goes with it if you tap on the link. The student on the left and the teacher on the right have a conversation about the student's art piece. The way they go about writing the conversation is well done. They don't actively bring up the disabilities of the characters. I think that is how we should do it in real life. Why make a big deal out of it when it's not that important to the person's creative process.
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