Fear of Disabled Pain by Bella Melardi

Art Technique: mixed media acrylic

Artist Statement

It is about how people with disabilities are often pitied and treated like less than as I experience this and don’t ask for this treatment. It is about how non-disabled people are afraid that I experience the world differently.


Bella Melardi (she/her) is a poet and artist. She writes about the political and personal. She attends OCADU.

Instagram: @poetluvs