The imagery of Cirque Du Soleil is globally recognized for its aesthetic beauty, the grace of fluid bodies performing defying acts.
Not often are these descriptions given to the disabled...until now.
Sins Invalid's work is a vibrant necessity in this age of bland complacency. They take the medical and societal parameters that have historically relegated the disabled citizen to a less than second class position and they throw it aside.
The art that is presented brings the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and ability and throws it in your face, forcing the viewer to come to terms with how these realities are not so different and yet so different for those with disabilities. And this is beautifully done with the erotic and the body.
Feminists are quite familiar with the politics of the body. How familiar are feminists with the issues that surround persons with disabilities?
The medical model, as often brought to the forefront with reproductive rights,...

