Style
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Podcast #87: Reveca Torres – Fashionista, SCI Support Ring Leader
In Episode #87 of No Free Rides, Tiffiny talks yoga, fashion and the make-or-break importance of family and peer support when you have a spinal cord injury with the founder of Backbones (one of the best SCI support networks out there), Reveca Torres.
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Wheelchair fashion tips: In your face, and a ladylike runway show
If Bjork can be deemed fashionable, if we can make kitchen appliances fashionable, why can’t we be rolling thrones of haute couture too? Srsly… If you watch the above video by Tiffany Giddes, a T10 paraplegic and member of The Ability 411 crew (a collaboration of five paralyzed vloggers who answer questions about life with paralysis), she shares all the best fashion tips she’s discovered since her injury. They are awesome. Tiffany is one tough chick so you know her fashion tips will be good. Her ability to be turn a project into a reality is crazy. Take her new movie Collision about a female wheelchair assassin—she stars in it…
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Push Girls: Reality TV Finally Finds Us
I wrote more about what “Push Girls” means to me for Easystand. Check it out: Push Girls premiered last Monday, the new reality show on the Sundance channel profiling four “hot babes” in wheelchairs. As a babe in a wheelchair myself (hey I’ve been called that), this show is the televised messiah I’ve been waiting for. The show’s premise – showing the world that you can still be beautiful, have a full life, a great job, have men that want you, and still drive a fabulous car (has been my personal goal since my injury). You have no idea how frustrating it is for people to be shocked when you can achieve any of…
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Push Girls Episode 1 Review: Everyone Stares
Oooh baby. I woke up this morning thinking I had nothing to look forward to except an ultrasound and a day of writing ahead of me, but then I saw the first episode of Push Girls dropped a week early. Post-Memorial Day weekend blues cured. SPOILERS AHEAD *** The first episode is titled “Everyone Stares,” which couldn’t be a better name for the first episode (that’s one of the first things you’ll notice when you use a wheelchair – everybody stares). And as the 12 minute preview (released last month) of the series gave me hope for, the first episode hit every note – the reality of dating in a wheelchair, health…
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SCI Superstar of the Week: Ali Stroker
Meet Ali Stroker, the first woman in a wheelchair to land a leading role in a professional musical, who’s also a contestant on the The Glee Project. Read this entry
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3/3/12: Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta features wheelchair bride
Last night, the Southern version of the hot wedding dress reality show, Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta, featured a bride in a wheelchair – a woman who was shot by a stray bullet only five months before.
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Miss Colours Hungary crowned
“The most beautiful woman in a wheelchair” in Hungary was crowned over the weekend at the first Miss Colours Hungary wheelchair beauty pageant, which I assume from the name (and the main image on their site) is sponsored by Colours Wheelchairs.
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2/9/12: What would you tell your teenage self?
If you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself to make the path ahead a bit easier?
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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.
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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.
