accessibility
The First International Film Festival for Persons with Disabilities was recently organised by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment…
Accessibility begins with access, enabled or denied, to concepts and ideas. At the core, beyond the architecture of the real and virtual worlds, it is about the architecture of the ways in which this access is broadened, to not only accommodate, but to nurture, the myriad expressions of human minds and bodies.
There are many ways to be queer. Apart from the fact that queerness encompasses a wide variety of sexual expression,…
The boundaries are the most interesting bits. No definitions can be identified without them, and yet they themselves remain in a state of flux – neither here nor there, neither this nor that, but both, all, nothing, and so much more. None can stake their claim on the borderland; it is unseizable, enigmatic, most ungraspable. In its ambiguity it has the power to comfort the outlier at its best, and at its worst, leave bereft those who seek refuge in the absolute.
‘How can she claim to be deaf if she doesn’t use sign language?’ ‘I’m glad this film has articulated the…