"Disability is a subjective, corporeal, and complex sociocultural construction. Looking at disabled bodies in art history offers significant insight into the various ways in which art can support or subvert the construction and performance of normative values. Recognizing the ways in which art performs disability ultimately challenges one-dimensional understandings of disability and art."

The problems that such a complex topic as institutional racism covers is wide-ranging, and therefore, when solutions are implemented, we are more often than not blanket-applying those fixes to multiple issues. Sometimes it's not a one-size-fits-all kind of task.

Without treating the underlying problem, a diagnosis and baby steps of progress will keep us struggling for decades more. If we examine our country at the very beginning, we thus find the true definition of 'stolen land', and how to address it today. 

Many constitutional freedoms are exercised by the majority of our country's citizens every day without question and sometimes without notice, but there are those who look longingly at the ideas and wish they could know the full might of that privilege.

The problem with immigration is the size of the issue. But let's dissect this and learn together with art!

Art is, by no accident, one of the most therapeutic connections we can make with ourselves and with others. How can it help us now, in 2025?

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