It all started with photography. In different poses, men and women froze on a large-scale panel. They seem to be young gods descended from Olympus. And just looking closer, you can see: one of them has no legs, the other has no arms, the third has legs and arms …
This is how the project “Acropolis: how I found my body” looked like, conceived by the director of the center “Without Borders” Yanina Urusova. And journalist Vladislav Dorofeev collected testimonies of the heroes of this project. They have neither an anguish nor an inspiring success story. These are the stories of ordinary people about their relationship with their disability. Yes, it is difficult for them, they fall, curse and again, once again, fix the prosthesis. But they are healthy. Their health lies primarily in their attitude to life: it goes on as usual, it just has slightly different rules of the game.
This book is about a new frontier between sickness and health: either we give up in the face of injury and its limitations and leave ourselves at the mercy of fate or the state, and then we are sick, or we decide to act. Then others believe that they have a healthy person in front of them. And disability is just a detail of the picture.
Alpina non-fiction, 208 p.