#awkward bastards

[keepingupwiththekamados]

why are they like this 

[marypaterson]

Review: Awkward Bastards conference 2017

“... Is ‘diversity’ about access to our cultural heritage, or about designing a different future? Is it ‘awkward’ to insist on visibility, or on variation? Are we the bastards who are going to smash down the doors to the mainstream art world, or the ones that will sail on by, whispering words that mainstream ears can’t hear?” 

The first Awkward Bastards symposium in 2015 brought together artists, activists, thinkers and producers to reflect on ‘the spectrum of diversity from disability, ethnicity, and sexuality, to gender and class.’ This year’s conference, AB2 (organised by DASH, mac birmingham and the Live Art Development Agency (LADA), continued in the same vein, introducing the theme of ‘absence.’

Read the full review on Disability Arts Online

[egparadigm]

Close to my own heart, @vacuumcleaner explains why he is neither disabled nor an artist.