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Safety By Mateo Alvarez
Image Description: This painting features a vibrant, diagonal rainbow background. Scattered across the rainbow are several golden infinity symbols, a white skull with a pink bow, a penguin, and a figure with blue hair. Other icons include headphones with musical… Continue Reading Safety By Mateo Alvarez
The Images of Depression By Ellie Satre
Image Description: The pencil sketch depicts a bloodied hand holding a mirror shard reflecting the skull of the beholder. In my mind, this is what depression looks like. It is something that on the outside you only look hurt –… Continue Reading The Images of Depression By Ellie Satre
Digital Collage By Kristianna Eaton
Image Description: On the left, a large, halftone-style illustration of a mouth is open as if speaking, positioned above a hand writing in a journal. Text boxes nearby read “Patience for me when I’m struggling” and “A safe space for… Continue Reading Digital Collage By Kristianna Eaton
Support: A Collage By Isaiah Thomison
Artist Statement: “These are my friends, family and teachers. These are important people in my life because they help me learn and grow. I want everyone to see how special they are. ArtMix is where I do Community Class and art… Continue Reading Support: A Collage By Isaiah Thomison
Second Nature By Xin Dauterman
Image Description: A watercolor painting on a textured, off-white background featuring a central bouquet of flowers and two small ducks in the lower right corner. The bouquet is composed of stylized, pointed petals in earthy tones of deep red, muted… Continue Reading Second Nature By Xin Dauterman
School in the Ring By Julia Vetters
Image Description: In the foreground, a massive, muscular figure seen from the back wears a graduation gown and mortarboard, holding a book labeled “DIPLOMA.” They loom over a much smaller, scruffy student in the boxing ring. Author Statement: “High school… Continue Reading School in the Ring By Julia Vetters
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