I am beautiful.: You too!

Van Thi Nguyen; Katharine Annear; Joanne Chua; Cara Ellickson; Munkhtsetseg Erdenebaatar; Minh Huyen Thi Ngo; Diego Del Valle Cortizas; Anu Mundkur

I am beautiful. You too!

Van Thi Nguyen (Director), Katharine Annear (Other), Joanne Chua (Other), Cara Ellickson (Other), Munkhtsetseg Erdenebaatar (Other), Minh Huyen Thi Ngo (Producer), Diego Del Valle Cortizas (Designer), Anu Mundkur (Developer)

Research output: Non-textual form › Theatre & Performance

Abstract

Drawing on feminist disability theory, women with disabilities (WWD) from the Global South and Global North and their allies, collaborated to create and perform a series of fashion shows to identify, share, unmask and subvert the reification of able-bodied beauty in global fashion. Queer crip theoretical perspectives on “compulsory able-bodiedness”, a phrase originating from Robert Mcruer (2002), shaped the ways that this participatory action research (PAR) and Communications for Development (C4D) project addressed dehumanising and disempowering social norms that perpetuate higher rates of violence against WWD.

The framework afforded different cohorts of WWD to collaborate, and to purposefully lead in the challenging of harmful social norms that impact their lives. These contributions offer valuable new cross cultural insights into intersectionality which are shared via the creative outcomes of the fashion shows. They also contribute particularities to the body of knowledge around WWD’s embodiment of disability, their resistance to “compulsory able-bodiedness”, and the possibilities for feminist disability activism to transform understandings of beauty within the normative global field of fashion and society more broadly.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Adelaide
Publisher	Nghi Luc Song (Will to Live) and Flinders University
Publication status	Published - 21 Nov 2014

Bibliographical note

Members of PAR team collaborated with different cohorts of 30 women with disabilities together with varying additional partners, to co-create and perform five unique live staged fashion shows as follows:

Adelaide: Australia: 21 November 2014
Ha Noi, Viet Nam: 21 November 2015;
Hoi An, Viet Nam: 16 April 2016;
Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam: 04 December 2016;
Sa Pa, Viet Nam: 16 June 2018

Keywords

Disability
Gender
Global South
Vietnam
Fashion
Activism

NTRO Type of Output

Major

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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I am beautiful. You too!

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Bibliographical note

Keywords

NTRO Type of Output

UN SDGs

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