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Embracing Life’s Challenges: The Journey of an Autistic Person with Epilepsy, Autism, and ADHD
Written and Art by Ash Ward Image Description: A disabled trans male being told He’s enough and the person saying that is making him feel important. Surrounded by the disabilities he has, the pain of having them are fading farther… Continue Reading Embracing Life’s Challenges: The Journey of an Autistic Person with Epilepsy, Autism, and ADHD
This is Depression
This is depression at its finest. It’s dark and light. It’s happy and sad. It’s crying one moment and being angry, so angry, the next. It’s putting on a smile to mask the pain. It’s playing with your children as if you hadn’t just been in the bathroom crying. It’s a Black Hole that sucks the life out of you until you don’t even know who you are anymore. It’s like drowning, you’re sinking into an ocean of pain and you can’t breathe and you can’t get to the surface. Continue Reading This is Depression
Autism Perspective
He sits in his room just like the character drawn, with his hands clasped, often fidgeting together. “I wanted to very clearly represent an Autistic person.” The sharks floating around him are representative of one of his special interests. Continue Reading Autism Perspective
I Am Whole By Arturo Contreras Mejia
Image Description: Arturo is standing on the left of the picture, in front of a telephone pole with his arms crossed. He is wearing a pink hoodie, jeans, and sunglasses. He has a serious bearded face. To the right, is… Continue Reading I Am Whole By Arturo Contreras Mejia
Rise: A Sculpture Created by Tina A
SCULPTURE TITLE: Rise ARTIST: Tina A. MATERIALS: Acrylic on Ceramic
Self-Portrait
My painting is a picture of myself. My friend helped me paint it. I looked in the mirror to draw it. After drawing I used paint. I added the black outlines last. I think I did a good job with the face. I like the blue in the background. I really enjoy making artwork. It makes me feel kind of happy about it. Making art makes me proud. Continue Reading Self-Portrait
Here is how you can contribute to the hub
IDJ would also like to uplift artwork by survivors with disabilities and people with disabilities broadly. The artwork does not need to specifically be about people with disabilities or about violence prevention or survivorship. Publication of artwork may serve 1 of 2 purposes:
- To bring creative awareness to disability justice, violence prevention, and/or survivorship.
- To uplift the creative work of people with disabilities broadly and survivors with disabilities specifically.
Artwork may be visual art, poetry, spoken word performances, music, theatre, or any other creative outlet! For more information about submitting artwork for us to share, check out the Submission Guidelines.
Visual Art
- Ink Zentangle Highland Calf by Faerie Bear Art
- Ink Zentangle Mule Deer by Faerie Bear Art
- Ink Zentangle Sloth by Faerie Bear Art
- Visual Art by Micah Bizant, a white anti-zionist jew and identifies as trans, nonbinary, and timtum (one of six traditional jewish gender categories)
- Bringing Awareness to Human Trafficking, by Gina Hope
- Survivor Artist: From the Mud by Charlie Tebow
- Movement by Johnson Simon
- How I See My Bipolar By Jason Powers
- Using Art to Bring Awareness to Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence
- Unknown Cause by Solomon
- Arms for Blessings and Breath, photography by Christina Martin
- All that is Mine is Yours, photography by Katrina Gossett Kelly
- Scarlet, by Liz Williamson
- Trese, an artist, by Trese
- Microaggression of a male DMST survivor, by Eric Harris, B.S.W., H.T.F.C.
- I get mad, by Jordan Kent
- Blue Brother’s Kid, by Tom Hamilton
- Self-Portrait, by Sarah Strouse
- Floral Study, by Emily West
- From the Mud, by Charlie Tebow
- Movement, by Johnson Simon
- Dismonsterize Disability, by Daniel Aaron Harris
- Heaven and Shadow Man, by Ashley McDaniel
- This is Depression, by Paige Guffey
- tw Ableism, by Cenix C. Callejo
Spoken Performances & Poetry
- Spoken Word: Neuroqueer Survivorship/Supervivencia Neuroqueer by Faerie Bear Art
- Poem + Visual Art: Personal Healing is Communal Healing by Faerie Bear Art
- David Farver: Speaking for Himself
- Dark Night of the Soul, by Stephanie Winn
- Ableism and Parenting, Megan Deahl
Theatre
- Forum Theatre Skit on navigating sexual violence in academia by Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc.
- Video Clips and Full Performances by Sins Invalid