Artist Feature: Rora Blue

Sweet Dreams by Rora Blue

Sweet Dreams explores the intricacies of everyday ableism and everyday ableist comments. Some of the comments recount dialogue said to the artist. Other phrases were submitted by other disabled and/or chronically ill individuals as documentation of comments that have been said to them. Through using recognizable objects associated with disability in correlation with playful colors, Sweet Dreams aims to reclaim objects commonly associated with pain and disrupt the narrative on what it means to be disabled.

Q: What was something you learned when creating these images?

A: Most of the time the people making these comments don't have bad intentions but that doesn't mean that these comments aren't harmful. I think this is an opportunity to reconsider commonplace phrases and for able bodied folx to learn how to be better allies to the disability community.

Q: What does being a feminist mean to you?

A: Being a feminist to me means thinking beyond gender discrimination and understanding how oppression is intertwined between marginalized communities.
In order to dismantle one system of oppression we've got to dismantle them all.