None of this stuff can be achieved alone. That’s something that I think disabled people really understand, and it’s something that they can really offer to society, that doing things alone isn’t something you always have to be proud of. In fact, a lot of the most important things that need to get done you need community for.
In celebration of Disability Pride Month, throughout July MPR News is featuring stories about Minnesotans with disabilities who are making an impact.
Madison Rubenstein is a painter and a visual artist from Bloomington who creates large-format paintings of twisting bodies, bold colours and swirling abstract shapes.
Their artworks are based on a lifetime of chronic illness and disability, invisible conditions that they now know to be fibromyalgia, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, PTSD and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, also known as POTS.
Madison notes that they paint to imagine new futures for themselves and other disabled people, where all needs are met and they can not only survive but flourish.
Check out the entire interview below!
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