this student is participating in a political debate!
backstory time! i've been looking around universities, deciding which ones i want to go to in a year or so. and though they've all been fantastic, with top-notch facilities, as a disabled person, i just feel so... invisible. we're not included. we're not celebrated. we're barely even mentioned. we're just a sidenote - "yes, we can accommodate you." (which is great, and i'm so glad they can accommodate disabled students!) and i know invisibly disabled people exist - i am one! but i'm going to be going to university using mobility aids, and it's so hard to evision my success there when i can't see it even once. not in the hundreds of student ambassadors. not in the staff. not in the syllabus. not in the advertising. i've seen so many pictures of students at the university, and not one centers disability. not to mention, they say they can accommodate you, but most unis are very hesitant to show it - if they even do at all. it's frustrating, saddening, and quite frankly, isolating.
that's where this idea was born. i want to draw disabled students going to university - participating in their classes, doing extraordinary things, achieving success, but most of all, just being uni students. we deserve to believe our own success is possible. this is what i'll be focusing on this disability pride month.
i'll be drawing disabled students open and proud, formatted like Barbie doll slogans - this Barbie is a doctor! this Barbie is a pilot! etc, to showcase our wide variety of talent and passion. whatever we may be doing, we have a place here. in whichever university we choose. because #we belong here.
other stuff below the cut!
@hijabi-detected :D!!!!!!
