Prune Nourry, the NYC- and Paris-based artist who used her cancer diagnosis as raw material to create, is now holding an exhibition in Paris featuring blind individuals who surmounted their disabilities to emerge stronger.
The co-director and producer of dance-theatre performance SAME-SAME explores friendship between differently abled artistes from Australia and Singapore.
Thai writer Jane Ngarmpun Vejjajiva talks about the struggles that writers with disabilities face in the literary world, and the ugly stereotypes and challenges that they still encounter today.
“If everyone is given equal opportunities, some people with disabilities could even perform better than the rest of us,” says the co-founder of Inclus, a company that helps find jobs for people with disabilities.
“Why can’t we wear something just because it is not designed to be worn easily?” With that, she launched a clothing label Will & Well to design and customise pieces for people with disabilities.