born from a wound

elysia ng

born from a wound asks what the limits of disability representation are in an industry born out of perpetual disablement and debilitation, revealing the troubling effects of what disabled representation hides and simultaneously sustains. It places fashion in conversation with race, disability, debility, capitalism, imperialism and the forces that sustain the death-making of oppressed peoples internationally. It seeks to reshape our collective understandings of fashion, what it is, and what it can be — urging a politic of responsibility rather than one of representation and respectability.

    ABOUT THE DESIGNER

    elysia ng

    elysia ng is a Chinese settler on expropriated, unceded Anishinabewaki, Wendake Nionwentsïo, Haudenosaunee, Mississauga, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation land. She writes first and foremost for land back, everywhere. She is a writer, archivist, and community researcher that is enthralled and enraptured by the world that exists just below the threshold of visibility. Her work sits at the locus of disability justice, fashion, material culture, critical race theory, and gender studies that is irreversibly marked by a yearning for liberationist futures. She writes to create sparks of political possibility beyond the dreams state apparatuses suture us to.

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