Past 1 of our smol fun make up series with @crip_a_licious
We are going to be covering different aspects of make-up and you will hopefully love them as much as we do!
Let us know in the comments below if there are any specific aspects you would like to be covered.
Until then, Happy Diwali and happy dressing up ❤️
#Disability #DisabilityRights #LivedExperiencesMatter #DisabilityAndMakeUp #DisabilityPride #Inclusion #DiversityAndInclusion
This is what a disabled hand at rest looks like.
Your self care doesn't count if it's not intersectional,
Your self care doesn't count if it doesn't include all bodies,
Your self care doesn't count if your definition of inclusivity excludes disabled bodies.
"I love to paint all over my disabled fingers in different shades of pink and purple. Painting my disabled fingers is how I express myself, it's how I dissent against an ability normative world."
#DisabledRestIsPower
@tarshingo @ThinkCREA @mariwalahealth @blanknoiseactionheroes
@hotindiemess
#HumansOfDisabilityPride @hotindiemess on reclaiming dancing.
Happy Disability Pride Month!
This was taken a year ago, by @unorderedmess when we were both drunk and crying happy tears. I sit down at the end of the video because I didn't want to be filmed dancing - I was ashamed of my disabled left hand which was almost always in a fist because I didn't want the world to see my curved fingers. Dancing, back then to me was about standing up and doing all those complicated steps, like on television. I remember telling myself, "it's okay if you can't do those steps, just stand in one place and I don't know, move your hands and shoulders, yep you're doing it wrong.". A young me would see my able-bodied classmates dance at parties and soon, I began to think that I didn't deserve to dance, if I didn't dance the "right way". This is how disabled folks grow up - I always thought my way of doing stuff - be it dancing, be it singing, be it writing, be it doing laundry, be it communicating, be it just "being" - is irrelevant because I'm doing it differently than everyone else.
The darkness in this video is symbolic because I didn't want anyone to see me, or my disabled body move. I wanted to hide myself.
2020 was a time when I felt like I needed a partner to feel sexy, to feel desired, to feel wanted. Well, it's 2021 now and I've never felt sexier just being nu and building a community everyday of my life. I'm f**king sad but I love my work. I am gonna dance - on my bed, on my chair, with my limp and my curled up fingers and my disabled, joyful and queer as f**k body. I'm gonna dance however the f**k I want - because that's what my revival is. I deserve to dance, I deserve to sing, I deserve to scream, I deserve to riot.
What do relationships mean for disabled folx? They mean an escape, a place to be ourselves, a place of love and understanding. When our partners are ableist to us, and force us to fit into their conceptions of what a disabled person is supposed to look like and behave, all our relationships become is a reflection of what we have to endure in the world.
Here, Anonymous speaks of their experience with their partners who did not approach their Disability with acceptance and love, but were confused by it. While they tried their best, they failed to make them feel like everyone else in a relationship should feel - like every part of them is loved, including their Disability.
Image description : In the background is a pattern with blue and pink diamonds. On a yellow background, text in black reads - A Digital Anthology on Disabled Sexuality. In the middle, two people are sitting, one on a wheelchair and talking at a table with a laptop beside them. One is wearing blue and the other is wearing green. In the background are open blue curtains, and a window showing greenery outside.
Part 2 : A Digital Anthology On Disabled Sexuality!
As we embark on the beginning of Disability Pride Month, we begin by looking at our bodies and our sexualities as a matter of pride. Acceptance begins from ourselves, and here we tell stories of our sexualities and our bodies - both happy and sad and everything in between. Because in a world which teaches us to hate our broken selves, we hold ourselves even tighter, with love.
Hence this Anthology- a series exploring disabled folx from the South Asian Diaspora simply being unapologetic and proud of their sexuality!
In the second part of their story, nu discusses how the internet seemed like a realm of freedom to them, as it is for many disabled folx. How they could easily hide their Disability on the internet as no one saw them.
But why should disabled folx be forced to feel this way about their body? Who forces us into hatred for ourselves. Its the world around us which tells us we are wrong repeatedly until we almost believe it. As disabled folx, loving ourselves goes against societal expectations because we should want to change. But f**k that. We love ourselves instead - and that love fires our revolution.
Illustrator - @minor_grace
ID: there is a cream stripe on top with “Strangers on the Internet” written in black. Below there is a picture which has a blue and purple pattern. “Love is contagious” is written in red and black on the top left. Below that two people are standing near each other. They are both wearing patterned clothes with leaves and flowers one is wearing green and the other orange and yellow. One person is holding a phone in their hand which has a pink heart. Below this image there is another cream stripe.
A Digital Anthology On Disabled Sexuality!
As we embark on the beginning of Disability Pride Month, we begin by looking at our bodies and our sexualities as a matter of pride. Acceptance begins from ourselves, and here we tell stories of our sexualities and our bodies - both happy and sad and everything in between. Because in a world which teaches us to hate our broken selves, we hold ourselves even tighter, with love.
Hence this Anthology- a series exploring disabled folx from the South Asian Diaspora simply being unapologetic and proud of their sexuality!
How do we begin to look at structures of casual sex and hookups in the case of disabled folks? Why are disabled folks seen as having no desires, not being sexually adventurous, less likely to cheat? What are these systems that fit us into boxes, even in our relationships?
Nu, our editor in chief speaks about their internalised Ableism in relationships, how they tried to achieve an able-bodied standard for who they thought they were supposed to be. They also discuss their experiences with their partners, learning how to be unapologetic about their Disability, and much more!
Video description : ID: there is a cream stripe on top with “Strangers on the Internet” written in black. Below there is a picture which has a blue and purple pattern. “Love is contagious” is written in red and black on the top left. Below that two people are standing near each other. They are both wearing patterned clothes with leaves and flowers one is wearing green and the other orange and yellow. One person is holding a phone in their hand which has a pink heart. Below this image there is another cream stripe.
