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How I See My Bipolar

July 29, 2021

BiPolar to me feels like someone is reaching in my mind with their fingers and messing with my emotions, motivations, and behaviors.The dark represents my depression, and the light represents my mania. The base of the Processing code was written… Continue Reading How I See My Bipolar

Pour Painting #1

Trese, an artist

November 30, 2021

KoalasDescription: A mother koala carries her baby on her back. Pour Painting #1Description: red, purple, turquoise, and gold swirled together in a shapeless pour. By Trese, an artist who wished to remain anonymous Subscribe to the hub

The artwork is a line drawing in marker with colored pencils for emphasis. The piece shows the merging of health, struggles with addiction, pain and diagnosis with visuals of a bloodstream flowing through pills, flowers, plants, quotes, medical bills, and diagnoses, some from doctors and some from friends, family, or acquaintances. Text: Live and Let Live; "fight flight and freeze behaviors are unconsciously reflexive"; Robotic laparoscopic hysterectomy; emotional abuse; Disorder, Unspecified 300.02; Insurance Denial; "What story are you telling yourself"; This, too, shall pass; to remove the uterus (womb); patient balance- $29,886.61, insurance balance; "When pain becomes chronic, the nervous system naturally becomes overactive"; pain 1-5 (worst); Depressive Disorder; "There is so much we don't know, and to write truthfully about your life, your own or your mother's... is to engage repeatedly with those patches of darkness, those nights of history, those places of unknown...(R.Solnit); post traumatic stress disorder.

Unknown Cause

January 26, 2022

The piece shows the merging of health, struggles with addiction, pain and diagnosis with visuals of a bloodstream flowing through pills, flowers, plants, quotes, medical bills, and diagnoses, some from doctors and some from friends, family, or acquaintances. Continue Reading Unknown Cause

Masking Pains

October 19, 2023

G. Rice  Image Description: digital drawing of a cartoonish person standing in a grey and plain landscape, looking up at the viewer with a hand extended forward, offering a hand shake. The person is wearing a polo shirt and long… Continue Reading Masking Pains

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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:

  1. To bring creative awareness to disability justice, violence prevention, and/or survivorship.
  2. 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.

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