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Cyborgs, wheelchair flight and disability arts

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By Robin Eames
| Artlink Magazine Verified
I’ve been thinking lately about the history of wheelchair design. The earliest depiction I know of is a vase painting, on an Attic red-figure kylix, of Hephaestus in a winged chariot, c. 525 BCE. Around the same period there are depictions of wheeled mobility devices (sans wings) in Ancient Greek and Chinese art.
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Trans people aren't new, and neither is their oppression: A history of gender crossing in 19th-century Australia

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By Robin Eames
| Phys.org Verified
(This article contains references to anti-trans, colonial and institutional violence, and includes information about an Aboriginal person who died in the early 20th century.) Anti-transgender hatred is on the rise. Driven by pseudoscience and backed by well-funded far-right pressure groups, part of the premise of the anti-trans "gender critical" movement is that trans people are new and unnatural. History shows us this is not the case.
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Trans people aren’t new, and neither is their oppression: a history of gender crossing in 19th-century Australia

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By Robin Eames
| Tolerance Canada
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