Latest posts tagged with #FaceEqualityWeek on Bluesky
Why support the #Resolution4Rare? Because 58% of people with rare conditions face discrimination - in schools, workplaces and even healthcare settings. The WHA Resolution is a step toward inclusion & change. #MentalHealthAwareness #FaceEqualityWeek
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A bust of Daphne looking at the viewer and smiling, facing right in 3/4 view. She is a young white woman with long wavy brown hair, brown eyes with the left eye having down-and-outwards-pointing strabismus and a droopy lid, and a large facial scar. The collar of her black shirt is visible.
Daphne standing with a lime-green glow stick, right hand on her chest and left eye looking up as she reminisces. "They were one of my favourites in high school," she says, "so I'm really excited for this concert!" She is wearing a dark purple shirt with the words "The Wailing Nightjars" written in pink (mostly hidden by her right hand which is on her chest), faded jeans, a magenta glow necklace, and an orange glow bracelet.
I have a couple of other characters with facial differences, namely a guy who has vEDS with the associated facial features (this counts, right?) and Florence’s father from the Verdantland Trilogy who also has a notable facial scar, but neither are well-developed characters yet so this post is just Daphne. Daphne is a major character in my dark urban fantasy WIP The Claws of the Ounce, the second draft of which I finished on Friday. She has a facial scar and oculomotor nerve palsy as the result of an early childhood injury (oculomotor stuff came from the post-trauma hematoma - also damage to the zygomatic nerve, but in her case it affects sensation more than motion and so isn’t visible). Though I somewhat explained it here, this information is not in the story itself, as Ash (the MC) has the sense not to ask invasive questions. She’s a big music fan, former goth / emo who still wears black most of the time, and Ash’s roommate and only friend for a good chunk of the story. The Wailing Nightjars are a fictional emo band.
I found out #FaceEqualityWeek is a) currently ongoing (though near its end) b) has art as its theme this year and c) invites everyone to join, so I decided to draw some new Daphnes for the occasion.
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Me, looking less than enthused, wearing a red The Goonies shirt, and rimless glasses. My hair is short on the sides and aloof floof on top. My right eye droops a bit more than the left, and my right cheek is a bit less full. My jaw is smaller on my right, causing a higher jawline and slightly crooked mouth. A scar runs from under my chin, to halfway down the size of my neck, and back up behind my ear. The skin around it is muddled and the neck itself is thinner on that side.
It's #FaceEqualityWeek, one of the rare occasions I share a selfie. Like everyone with a visible difference, people with a facial difference experience judgment, ridicule, and exclusion.
Even if we aren't ashamed of how we look (we shouldn't), it hurts to be excluded or judged by our looks.
