For a long time, pop culture closed its doors on me as an amputee and alternative #artist. I think people have always found it hard to know what to think or feel about an amputee who wasn’t trying to be an Olympian. In sports, “overcoming a disability makes you a hero, but in pop there is no place for these feelings. I have never felt comfortable thinking of myself as disabled and this has inspired me to actively challenge old-fashioned views and #create a platform in mainstream pop-culture, with other #artists, where I have always known I belonged. I want people to feel new feelings that they didn’t know they had.” -VIKTORIA MODESTA ____________ Viktoria is a British singer-songwriter who took the radical decision at age 20 to undergo a below-the-knee amputation to improve her mobility following difficulties at birth which left her with a damaged left leg. https://youtube/watch?v=jA8inmHhx8c cc: Jaimy Mokos
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 15:56:24 +0000
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