Written by Jaylee Cox with the support of the DAC team Disability has historically been widely ignored in mainstream fashion, with little representation on the runways or in designer collections. This neglect echoes the broader cultural attitude toward disabled people in the public eye. Individuals like Aimee Mullins challenge these standards and have brought thisContinue reading “Adaptive Fashion: A Revolution of Style for All”
Category Archives: Visual & Performing Art
Response to the New York Times: The Intersection Of Dance and Audio Description
Written by Madison Bigelow, with Support from the DAC Team In recent news, The New York Times published an article entitled “Hear the Dance: Audio Description Comes of Age,” meant to highlight the advances in accessibility that dance performances have experienced as of late. I really have a soft spot for dance– I grew upContinue reading “Response to the New York Times: The Intersection Of Dance and Audio Description”
Boiled Owls: A Bittersweet Symphony of Addiction and Recovery
Written by Jaylee Cox with support from the DAC team “I am not a superhuman ball of lightning that is a mythic ideological construction of what cocaine is, the substance changes when the person taking it becomes a vessel for that substance” Azad Ashim Sharma, Boiled Owls, p. 37 With a diverse background in EnglishContinue reading “Boiled Owls: A Bittersweet Symphony of Addiction and Recovery”
Boiled Owls: A Poetry Reading by Azad Ashim Sharma
Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC Team Tuesday, April 2, 3:45-5:15 P.M. On a quiet Tuesday evening, Asian American writer and publisher Azad Ashim Sharma sits his audience members down for a small poetry reading at the Asian American Cultural Center (AsACC) on the fourth floor of UConn’s Student Union. As soonContinue reading “Boiled Owls: A Poetry Reading by Azad Ashim Sharma”
The Dance of the “Handicapped”
Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC Team The post covers an insight into the origins and the revival of a Korean traditional folk dance called the “Byeongsin chum” (literally the dance of the handicapped). Between the 1990s and early 2000s, South Korea sustained an exponential growth in popularity on an international scale dueContinue reading “The Dance of the “Handicapped””
Places of Waiting
Written by Ashten Vassar-Cain, with support from the DAC team The floorplan was not the most remarkable thing that I saw in the archives. At first glance, there was nothing extraordinary about the basement of Knight Hospital. This was not like the documents that puzzled me, the images that startled me, and the narratives thatContinue reading “Places of Waiting”
In the Quest for a “Diabetic Aesthetic”: Where Ramadan and Diabetes Meet through Sculpture
Written by Elisa Shaholli with support from the DAC team For the past few months (Spring semester 2023) at the University of Connecticut, I have been working on my undergraduate senior thesis. My thesis, titled, “Religious Identity and Diabetes: A Muslim American Perspective” explores the experience of Muslim diabetics specifically within the United States, butContinue reading “In the Quest for a “Diabetic Aesthetic”: Where Ramadan and Diabetes Meet through Sculpture”
Representing Diabetes with Art: Sculpting Ms Excess
Art sculpted by and piece written by Elisa Shaholli with support from the DAC team. Shown above is a clay, hand sculpted art piece titled ‘Ms Excess,’ meant to represent diabetes through the social model and embracing of a “diabetic aesthetic” where diabetes and beauty can be related, rather than on opposite ends of aContinue reading “Representing Diabetes with Art: Sculpting Ms Excess”
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