Allyson Hamblett is an artist and a long-time disability and transgender rights advocate. This week, she tells us about Arts Access Aotearoa’s “I Am an Artist campaign”, which aims to change people’s attitudes and perceptions by promoting the work of artists who experience disability. Society holds many preconceptions about disability, based on fear of the…
The 100 Days Project, started in New Zealand by designer Emma Rogan, has one simple premise: for 100 days you must repeat a creative task of your choosing. It must be repeated in some form every day and documented for eventual presentation. There are no other rules and the medium is completely open. 100 Days…
Chelle Hope is a writer who is, regrettably, finding less time for being idle these days as the demand for attention from her inner voice grows louder and more urgent. As a lesbian with disabilities, she is interested in how identity informs how we see ourselves and others. In this week’s guest blog, she explains…
Last week this article about a self-identified gay man in a relationship with a trans woman, popped up all over my social media spaces. It got me thinking about my sexual orientation, in relation to myself, and to my partner.
Emma Rogan, a New Zealand designer, read about the “100 Days of Design” project on the Design Observer Blog and instantly wanted to go to the Yale School of Art to take part. After finding out the fees were $US 55,000 and remembering her family and many other commitments at home, she decided to run…
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