What happened: Artist Panteha Abareshi, who has sickle cell beta zero thalassemia, spoke to gal-dem about how her art.
In the profile, Abareshi discussed what it is like to watch able-bodied people during the coronavirus outbreak “suddenly thinking about their own health in a more frantic state,” which is the norm for chronically ill people.
Abareshi also criticized the taboo nature surrounding prosthetics and the inherent ableism of our world. It’s the radical notion that that is the next step in evolution.
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