Riya Jain
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Riya Jain
Synthesis as art:
Howard Gardner • A Look Inside “A Synthesizing Mind” by Howard Gardner (Book Summary)
(Chronic) Illness + women + homes
On curation
also know personally that a function of ableism is that it forces disabled people to navigate systems in isolation, so most people do not actually have a clue about what our lives are like. I
Alice Wong • Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
“…..and I come up against him, almost through him, we are so intricately positioned before one another. And I feel as if I am being removed from something; or something is being taken from me but being replaced by something else.” - anonymous letter from Want, collected by Gillian Anderson
Art I like and Book brain
I feel a little bitter that most non-disabled people do not have this dilemma of whether they will exchange their privacy to be seen as human.
Alice Wong • Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
Human contact wears things out with disheartening slowness - Inferno, Henri Barbusse
Audrey Flack (1931–2024)
open.spotify.comGreat Woman Artists: Audrey Flack
“Art is a great healer.”
“It’s almost like if you think of a string with rough edges, and art comes and puts a smooth gel around it, so then you can think better.”
Her memoir for the art scene in New York in the 50s: With Darkness Came Stars
We talk about how we can make events more accessible, and we absolutely need to be having that conversation more frequently and seriously than we already do. But aside from events, what does it mean to make your organization, Facebook group, or house accessible? What does that mean for those of us who are on a fixed income or have no income, or if
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