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Category: Blog
12/12/10: New funding available for British Columbians with disabilities
If you have a disability and live in British Columbia, you gotta know about the British Columbia Personal Supports Network. This great organization has new funding to help YOU get the assistive technology you need.
12/3/10: High-profile UK columnist enthralls with life as new quadriplegic
Melanie Reid, 52, a popular columnist for The Times, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, is exposing real life with paralysis – her new life – like no one before her.
12/2/10: We’re looking for a sponsor!
Our podcast No Free Rides, a show for women with disabilities, is in need of a new sponsor.
11/30/10: Paralyzed bride-to-be is the epitome of class, strength
Rachelle Friedman, a 24 year old woman from Virginia, has shown nothing but strength and class since a prank at her bachelorette party last May resulted in paralysis.
11/19/2010: “Say Yes to the Dress” features gorgeous wheelchair bride
Amazing $4,000 (and over) wedding gowns are standard fare on Say Yes to the Dress, the hugely popular wedding dress shopping reality show. And Kelley Brooks, a gorgeous paraplegic from Tennessee, was the first wheelchair-using bride to be featured on the show.
11/11/2010: Embryonic stem cell research is in jeopardy, but you can help!
We are facing one of the most important battles in the history of embryonic stem cell research in the United States. If you’re not aware of what’s going on and support ethical embryonic stem cell research, here is the situation.
11/11/2010: Badass wheelchair dude thwarts robber
Larry Skopnik, a paraplegic from Vancouver, is why you should never underestimate the guy in a wheelchair when robbing a convenience store (if you don’t click on this I don’t know what I’m going to do with you).
11/4/10: Arizona foundation empowering young women with disabilities with fashion, and Kelly Rowland
The Aurora Foundation is a non-profit after my heart. Their mission – “To empower young women with disabilities to access their inherent leadership capacities.” Their sister foundation, disABLED DIVAZ, has an exciting fashion show coming up. They’ve also launched their first ever fashion design competition.
10/22/2010: Wheelchair tennis star poses nude on cover of ESPN magazine’s Body Issue
Dutch wheelchair tennis athlete Esther Vergeer, 29, has been chosen to grace the cover of ESPN magazine’s 2010 Body Issue. She’s the first woman in a wheelchair to be featured in the magazine’s anticipated issue (which photographs athletes at the top of their game in artfully nude poses). Read more.
– Tiffiny, the fashionista paralyzed blogger (bio)