Both are failures of the imagination supporting and supported by the drive toward normalcy and normalization.”Ī few designers make adapted clothing for disabled people and other designers make gender affirming clothing for trans and queer people, but the garments focus mainly on function, with almost no concern for aesthetics. In Feminist, Queer, Crip (2013), disability feminist scholar Alison Kafer writes that “the inability to value queer lives is related to the inability to imagine disabled lives. But what if we were to resist society’s desire to render us invisible? What if, through a dress reform, we collectively refuse to assimilate?ĭisabled and trans people have specific clothing needs that aren’t adequately served by mainstream designers. Society wants us to “blend in” and not draw attention to ourselves. “The visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength” – Audre LordeĬultural norms don’t encourage trans and disabled people to dress stylishly or loudly. Original version finished April 22, 2015- get the zine to read it all! Video by Colectivo Multipolar on Instagram Visibility: A QUEERCRIP DRESS REFORM MOVEMENT MANIFESTO (Abridged) Listen to Sky read Aloud the Full Original Manifesto: I want to go back to the sanctuary and preciousness of real books you can touch and feel, where you won’t get distracted by pop up adds or scrolling through a feed, to make our futures more tangible. It is because of this toxicity on the internet that I choose to have hardcopies available. When our main representation in media is our death, it makes it extremely difficult to continue to live a life. The Radical Visibility Zine shows queer and disabled teens, adults and children a possible future, which contrasts the death obsessed media that is so prevalent today. All issues of the Radical Visibility Zine will be for sale when our new shop is up! the following is the original paper that I wrote for my class with Romi Crawford in 2015, and has been my ideology for Rebirth Garments ever since!Ĭlick here if you want to read the abridged version that is translated in Spanish by Ana Garcia!Ĭlick here to read the Plain Language translation by Sara Luterman that is in “Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty First Century” edited by Alice Wong!! Radical Visibility starts on page 71- 78, but feel free to read them all!!
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