Repost from @metal_magazine huge thanks to @sophiaschrank for these amazing photos and @youthfulmetals for the jewels, @maisie_wilen and @kkco for allowing me to pull for this shoot.💕 • Emily Barker studied Art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been a model, actress and artist. Their artistic work emits an effortless ability for intersectionality and a clever yet beautiful depiction of their experiences to raise disability awareness and understanding. “It’s a privilege even being able to understand what’s happening”, they say, when it comes to addressing how numb society is to accessibility needs. Their art has an emotional impact to help people question their own reality and local to global political structures. Far from a minority experience, Emily Barker’s work speaks to the inevitable physical limitations of every human, fragile, aging body and what we should be doing about it. (- I would like to clarify my work is about societies incentivized neglect, the built environments nearsightedness and not about the bodies physical limitations and fragility which is natural and besides the point. The body should never have to accommodate a built environment the built environment should accommodate each body.) Antonio Rodríguez talked to @celestial_investments at METAL S/S, link in bio to read the full interview.