What Stacy Zoern, a lawyer, just pulled off down in Pflugerville, Texas should be on front page of The Wall Street Journal. She just moved a Hungarian wheelchair smart car manufacturer to Texas.
Month: January 2012
1/28/12: The small and sassy blogger, Jane Hash
In episode #82 of No Free Rides, Tiffiny is joined by Jane Hash, a fun-loving woman with Osetogenesis Imperfecta who hosts her own podcast and is making a documentary about her one-of-a-kind life.
1/28/12: Meet forever rocker Jason Becker
Jason Becker, a rising metal guitarist who at 20 was diagnosed with ALS (he played for Cacophony and the David Lee Roth band in the late 1980’s), refuses to raise the white flag and is still composing music.
1/23/12: “Push Girls” coming to TV
A new reality show “Push Girls,” featuring four female wheelchair-users, has been green-lighted by the Sundance Channel. The show will change misconceptions of disability and so much more.
1/18/12: Paralyzed Scottish songstress loses battle with cancer
The U.K. version of American Idol, The X Factor, helped catapult Kerry McGregor, a paraplegic from a fall at age 13, into stardom. Last week she passed away from bladder cancer. Read my blog
1/10/12: Disabled comic video-bombs North Korea
Comedy documentary The Red Chapel shows what happens when two Danish-Koreans, one with Cerebral Palsy, gain entry to the most evil regime in the world; a regime that notoriously hates the disabled. Read this blog
1/8/12: “Beauty Through Damage” photo project
Spearheaded by a newly disabled fetish lingerie designer, the Beauty Through Damage photo project aims to obliterate previously held thoughts on beauty and bodily imperfections.