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NOT EVERY FLOWER IS THE SAME

Tue 18th October 2024 

Not Every Flower is the Same - Show Models with Disabilities. 

A Zine, commentating on the common lack of representation of people with disabilities in the media as people who are not defined by their disability/illness.  




   Zine Front Cover ‘No Flower is the Same! Materials use: Paper, magazine collage, permanent marker pen, coloured cellophane sheets.            








Video of Zine being flicked through


Front Cover of the Zine 

(ALT: A small white rectangle with a magazine strip of flowers, and the capitalised words ‘Not every flower is the same!’ in black pen and ‘Show models with Disabilities!’ in green pen on a pink background.)
Pages 1 & 2 of the Zine 

(ALT: Page 1: A magazine cut out of a woman’s clothed torso, annotated in green pen with diabetic medical deviced- Dexcom, and Insulin Pump. At the top of the page the words ‘Diabetes is effecting 5% of the population’ are capitalised in black.
Page 2: A magazine cut out of a woman’s clothed torso and left arm, on which a green cross and black IV drip have been annotated. The IV line leads to the right of the woman where an IV stand is along with the words ‘Some disabilities are Invisible’ written in black and also capitalised.)
Pages 3 & 4 of the Zine 

(ALT: A magazine cut out of a woman’s legs clothed in jeans and a dog sits over the centre fold of the two pages. 
She has a green cane made from twisted cellophane and the dog has been annotated with a harness. To the left of the image the words ‘Young ppl have walking sticks too!’ is capitalised in black and to the right of the image the words ‘Service dogs are accessibility tools’ is also written in black and capitalised.)
Pages 5 & 6 of the Zine 

(ALT: Three images cut out from an art magazine of naked woman created from stippling paint go from left to right across the page: a woman’s back; a woman’s legs from thigh to toes; and a woman’s head, naked torso and breasts, her thighs and arms which cover her privates. The first of these images is annotated in both black and green with a curved spine like someone with scoliosis has, and the words ‘Everyone Wants to be seen!’ capitalised. Above this image the words ‘Not just one, Many’ are written in green and capitalised. The next image, which lies across the centre fold is annotated with a prosthetic leg from teh knee down and the words, in black, ‘Use amputees as models!’.
The final image has the woman’s face covered with the words ‘Have naked models’... which is finishes beneath the image...’With Stomas’. The stomach of the woman has a stoma made from purple cellophane.)

@University of Reading, England 
Central Kitchen, New Art Building, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6DH