Zito Madu

“...the true absurdness of the world is in its pretense that so much of life is not ridiculous.”
― Zito Madu, The Minotaur at Calle Lanza

“As a site of understanding the world, we know that not all bodies are considered equal. From skin color to disabilities, visible or otherwise, to the physical performance of gender, there is a history that determines what kinds of struggles one has to deal with because of the body one has been born into. The more marginal those bodies are, the better—or rather the clearer—understanding one gets of the world’s true face. In New York, it only took an ankle injury for me to see the cruelty against disabled people that’s inherent in the city’s architecture. This is not by mistake but rather is a statement about who gets to participate in that society, who gets to be part of that community. Sometimes this statement is made by not having any way for disabled people to access buildings, and sometimes it’s done through the violence of borders, laws, societal structures, and long stares as someone walks around that remind them that they are not wanted or welcome. I’ve said before that I sometimes like to be invisible, but depending on one’s body, that possibility is often impossible.”
― Zito Madu, The Minotaur at Calle Lanza