An image by Jenny Bautista Media from the This is Gender Collection. In the cinematic black-and-white image, Isa and Tavo, an older couple who both live with disabilities, embrace tenderly in their underwear. Their faces are pressed together in quiet intimacy, eyes closed, smiling, entirely absorbed in each other. A wheelchair sits nearby. The image captures a moment of uninhibited affection.

On #IDPD2025 we join the call for disability-inclusive societies that uphold dignity, autonomy & agency for all. 📢

Gender and #Disability are deeply intertwined – our #ThisIsGender exhibition #CrippingTheLens brings this into focus: bit.ly/4fQYs74

#SocialJustice #Inclusion

📸 Jenny Bautista Media

Three members of an amputee football club lie side by side in the shallow, flowing waters of a river in Bangladesh, arms stretched above their heads and hands clasped together. Captured during a journey through Srimangal and Sylhet, the image reflects rest, solidarity, and quiet resistance.

🏆 WINNER: ‘Hope Never Dies’ by Sadman Sakib captures a moment of rest, solidarity, & quiet resistance as amputee footballers lie in a flowing river on their journey through Srimangal & Sylhet, Bangladesh.

🖼️ Explore #CrippingTheLens: bit.ly/44FvuDf

@thinkcrea.bsky.social #Disability #Global5050

A promotional graphic for the “This is Gender: Cripping the Lens” virtual exhibition by Global 50/50. The top half features a collage of 17 photographs portraying disabled people across different ages, genders, ethnicities, and settings, challenging dominant narratives of disability and gender. The bottom section has a curved rainbow stripe and dark grey background – representing the disability pride flag. The graphic reads “THIS IS GENDER: CRIPPING THE LENS – VIRTUAL EXHIBITION.” The Global 50/50 logo appears in the top right corner.

The full #CrippingtheLens longlist is now available to explore on our #ThisIsGender platform, bringing together images from artists around the world that reimagine #gender, #disability & #justice. ✨

🖼️ Explore now: bit.ly/4fQYs74

#GenderAndDisability #GenderJustice @thinkcrea.bsky.social

A black-and-white digital artwork by Hardeep Singh titled “Fragmented Faces”, featuring repeated, stylised male-presenting faces with moustaches, partially obscured or overlaid by abstract symbols, disjointed lines, stitched textures, and hand motifs. Each face is divided, layered, or incomplete, evoking fragmentation and fluidity. The hand shapes—some with padlock icons—suggest both communication in sign language and restriction. The composition blends portraiture with textile-like repetition, reflecting Deaf and gender-nonconforming identities and the tension between resilience and erasure.

🏆 WINNER: ‘Fragmented Faces’ by Hardeep Singh uses sign language-inspired gestures and abstract forms to explore #Deaf and gendered identity. A powerful meditation on how the body becomes a medium of meaning.

🖼️ Explore #CrippingTheLens: bit.ly/44FvuDf

#ThisIsGender #Disability

In a cinematic black-and-white image, Isa and Tavo, an older couple who both live with disabilities, embrace tenderly in their underwear. Their faces are pressed together in quiet intimacy, eyes closed, smiling, entirely absorbed in each other. A wheelchair sits nearby. The image captures a moment of uninhibited affection

🏆 WINNER: ‘Acompañamiento y Cariño’ by Jenny Bautista Media beautifully shows #care not only as support given or received, but as something shared – rooted in connection, agency & mutual trust.

Explore our #CrippingTheLens exhibition: bit.ly/44FvuDf

#ThisIsGender #Disability @thinkcrea.bsky.social

A blind woman with white hair reaches up to touch the face of an ancient Egyptian sculpture during a multisensory museum tour. Her hands, lit softly against the dark background, are central to the image – delicate and expressive, they appear to navigate the contours of the sculpture with care and intent.

🏆 WINNER: ‘The past in your hands’ by Jaime Prada shows what equitable access to art & culture looks like – and asks: what if our shared spaces reflected the diversity of those who move through them?

Explore the full #CrippingTheLens exhibition: bit.ly/44FvuDf

#ThisIsGender @thinkcrea.bsky.social

#CrippingTheLens is an online exhibition featuring 50 artworks aiming to challenge how we view gender, disability and power.

The collection was judged by disabled artists and visual art experts, drawn from more than 800 worldwide submissions.

@gh5050.bsky.social

A healthcare worker in full protective gear administers a vaccine or injection to a woman seated under a thatched-roof shelter in the remote Banaue Rice Terraces of the Philippines. The woman wears traditional attire and a face mask, illuminated by a warm light against the dusk-darkened backdrop of terraced green fields. The scene conveys care reaching remote communities despite geographical barriers.

WINNER: ‘When the mountain won’t move, healthcare must’ by Gina C. Meneses. 🏆

It shows what #healthequity looks like – when wheelchair #accesibility is limited, care climbs mountains.

Explore the full #CrippingtheLens exhibition: bit.ly/44FvuDf

#ThisIsGender #Disability #GenderJustice #Access

A promotional graphic for the “This is Gender: Cripping the Lens” virtual exhibition by Global 50/50. The top half features a collage of 17 photographs portraying disabled people across different ages, genders, ethnicities, and settings, challenging dominant narratives of disability and gender. The bottom section has a curved rainbow stripe and dark grey background – representing the disability pride flag. The graphic reads “THIS IS GENDER: CRIPPING THE LENS – VIRTUAL EXHIBITION.” The Global 50/50 logo appears in the top right corner.

Explore #CrippingtheLens – a new virtual exhibition from @gh5050.bsky.social’s #ThisIsGender

50 powerful images centring disabled people as artists, subjects & storytellers – reimagining how gender & disability affect our bodies, minds, relationships & more.

See the winning images: bit.ly/44FvuDf

A promotional graphic for the “This is Gender: Cripping the Lens” virtual exhibition by Global 50/50. The top half features a collage of 17 photographs portraying disabled people across different ages, genders, ethnicities, and settings, challenging dominant narratives of disability and gender. The bottom section has a curved rainbow stripe and dark grey background – representing the disability pride flag. The graphic reads “THIS IS GENDER: CRIPPING THE LENS – VIRTUAL EXHIBITION.” The Global 50/50 logo appears in the top right corner.

What happens when disabled people claim the frame, as artists, subjects, and storytellers? 🖼️

Launched today, #CrippingTheLens is a 50-image virtual exhibition reimagining how we see gender, disability & #inclusion.

📸 Explore now: bit.ly/44FvuDf

#DisabilityPrideMonth #ThisIsGender

To mark #DisabilityPrideMonth, next week we launch #CrippingTheLens – a virtual exhibition that invites you to rethink and reframe the stories we tell about gender, disability, and the politics of being seen. 🖼️

Stay tuned.

#ThisIsGender #GenderAndDisability