Liz Crow: Disability Rights and Accessible Activism
Often, we imagine activism as marches and sit-ins, activities that involve physical robustness. Yet Liz Crow challenged my traditional conception of activism through her work, “Bedding Out.” In the piece, Crow, who prefers not to specify her specific disability lies in a bed in the public space of the Salisbury Arts Center. There, she has “bedside …
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Madlove: A Designer Asylum
the vacuum cleaner, a UK-based art collective, recently ran an exhibition called Madlove: A Designer Asylum, in which they crafted an exhibit based on people with mental illness’s description of their ideal asylum. James Leadbitter, the lead artist behind the project and someone with experience in the asylum system, has said that since the exhibition he …
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