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2/21/12: Amazing quad pony tail technique
Every girl wants the freedom of throwing up her hair. Elizabeth Kolbe, 25, a C6-7 quad with paralyzed hands, figured out a way to put her hair up after working on a technique for 2 years. Watch!
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2/15/12: Making Things Easy Again: Quad with badass knife (and skills)
You gotta check out this video of Chris Colwell, a C5-6 quadriplegic who recently moved to Dubai, who has the best knife skills I’ve ever seen a quad possess.
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2/10/12: Looking to get her feet wet
Dear Tiff, I have type 2 Spinal Muscular Atrophy. I’m totally ready to enter the dating scene. How can I become a “hot chick in a wheelchair,” and not, “Just that disabled girl?
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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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2/7/12: Get smarter, watch videos
“How-to” online disability videos make us way more informed than our disabled predecessors and are one of my favorite ways to learn. Read this blog
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1/31/12: Woman moves wheelchair car plant to US
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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1/18/12: 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
