http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/ In conjunction with TakingITGlobal's Featured Theme on Disability, the Global Gallery invites submissions on the body and disability. The purpose of this collection is to raise consciousness on the representation of disability in society and to s http://tigweb.org/images/express/gallery/thumbsv2/15722_thumb74.jpg http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/ 74 74 Disability: Belonging to the Body Thumbnail http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/16154 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/16154 HIV/AIDS does not kill, tuberculosis kills. It is a matter of human disability, a state of the mind, the inability of humanity to confront a disability that confronts it. A world that allows for ability and disability. Testing and knowing makes the difference. Tuberculosis kills as much as HIV/AIDS. It is a disability. http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/16048 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/16048 Fantastic nature. http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15927 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15927 In art we see beauty in imperfection. We treasure our statues of the great Greek and Roman empires. Even with missing arms, legs and even heads they are still reflecting the beauty of the artwork, the human body as art form. Every human is a living artwork, their perfection is the imperfection. There is no creativity without diversity and difference. Look trough the stigma and see the beauty in everyone. http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15874 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15874 Disability, like any of our other struggles, is life's way of showing our dependence. When everything seems too BIG, fear not. When everything seems too HARD, worry not. For where our skills, talents, resources and knowledge ends, HIS mercy begins. A cripple resting on a cross is my image of life, a life of disability and a life of dependence. I was inspired by my friend, Peter, as he transformed his DISABILITY into "This ABILITY". http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15831 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15831 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15770 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15770 Human imagination and thought-processing is full of wonderful, inter-connected paths. Out of that protein mass that we call brain, so wonderful and exquisite marvels are created. There's no limit to imagination. http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15722 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15722 Disability has been one of the unfortunate plagues hampering normal life and dreams of African People. The disabled have been denied attention for so long and need to be treated with absolute LOVE AND PASSION as love-making in a warm KENTE. Africans love and cherish kente, and acquire it with passion because its symbolises our cultural heritage. Our love for the disabled strengthens them and makes them fight on, to make a living for themselves. It simply takes them off our streets and enables them regain their confidence knowing that they are not facing life all alone but with our care and support. LOVE-PASSION DISABILITY http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15672 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15672 Picture has taken from Manikganj highway, Bangladesh. http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15636 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15636 To go onward. http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15446 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15446 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15436 http://gg.tigweb.org/tig/disability-belonging-to-the-body/15436 This photo demonstrates an ergonomically designed computer station that is minimizing pain (low back pain and pain associated with RSI or repetitive stress injury) and is described here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displayarticle.cfm?ID=108