An essay by the Aisle 4 Collective shares findings from their ongoing research project into the role of non-disclosure agreements.
Articles
Artist Sarah Cullen (ON) reflects on MOTHRA: Artist-Parent Project, a residency and network for artist-parents and their children, designed to question dominant ideas about care work.
Purdah is a term that encapsulates the concept and practice of veiling and voluntary seclusion from society. The word “Purdah,” derived from Farsi, can also have the literal meaning of “curtains.” “Purdah: Veiled Realities” is a multimedia project that explores this concept through a personal journey, inspired by the rich cultural and feminist lineage of my Islamic heritage, where women in my ancestry have voluntarily embraced various forms of Purdah, such as the hijab, Balochi chadar, niqab, and burqa…
We are so grateful for the generous support of EQ Bank in developing a three-part publishing and event series dedicated to digital disability justice during the Fall of 2023.
Part THREE – Saturday November 18th
This online panel explores Black, Indigenous, and Crip technoscience and how intersectional disability justice lends itself to innovation.
Co-presented with Inter/Access
Coordinated by Belinda Kwan
Theme: Surface
BlackFlash Magazine Issue 41.1 (Spring 2024)
Pitches Due: November 10, 2023
“DO I INTIMIDATE?” started as an anthropology research question for my university classes. In a series of ten interviews, I asked elders and youths in my Yoruba Community how it felt to wear their traditional attire in public.
“In my mind, a potent image of my late father involves a computer. He’s staring at the blue-white glow of his CRT monitor, sitting in his wheelchair, turned away from me. The visual memory eclipses his face. In an uncanny parallel, I look at a screen whenever I want to remind myself of his features. In both circumstances, a digital display facilitates remembering.”
“…every day since the Women’s March. I would read about something and I would make a sign about it. It was about Trump, feminism, Indigenous rights. It was about the birds, disappearing nature. So, it was about broad topics and then the pandemic came into it. But it’s all very, very connected.” ~ Dawna Rose
“Last week we voted for a new name, next week we exchange washroom keys and in the weeks to come, Video Vérité and The Photographers Gallery will become one fast family. As of February 25th at 7:00 p.m Central Time, our two media-based galleries united under a paved banner.
Now… what are we going to do about it?”