Cheung stopped taking medication for schizophrenia at 25. At 42, she could still be considered “mentally incapable” under Hong Kong’s legal framework. Photo: Jonathan Wong

    Hong Kong artist challenges disability labels in new exhibition

    Artist and disability justice advocate Sophie Cheung Hing-yee was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 13. By 25, she had stopped taking medication, but her doctor would not declare her “recovered”, only that her symptoms were in “remission”. “That label … it felt like a wardrobe I could never step out of, a long, dark…

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