Tag: Disabilities in the media
1 day or 1 year. How long does it take to really know “wheelchair life?”
The recent headline of Saturday’s singer Vanessa White having to perform from a wheelchair got me thinking. Was she embarrassed or did she secretly like the attention? And did she learn anything from the experience? Read the rest of my thoughts here.
– Tiff
FMySCI.com: Real, brutal, and awesome
I love this site! Read why here. – Tiff
Read anonymous entries from real people with spinal cord injuries, sharing what it’s like to really be them.
China’s top dancer, paralyzed in a fall, thinks she’ll walk again. Is she delusional?
There’s nothing more tragic than a broken ballerina. Liu Yan, China’s top dancer, was paralyzed in a fall last August while rehearsing for the Summer Olympics ceremony. What do you think? Is she wrong to not accept her paralysis?
Read my blog on this always controversial subject here
– Tiff
Paralyzed and getting preggers. Would you do it?
I know Michelle Carston, the quad in this Discovery Health channel show from last year. Watching this show makes a girl think: To get sperminated or not? That is the question.
– Tiff
Sexy models to sell wheelchairs? Yes, tell me more
A thought-provoking ad campaign by California-based wheelchair company, Colours In Motion, is using sexy models (who also have disabilities in real life) to sell their products. Check out the titillating buzz here.
– Tiff
Is it messed up if a rock star dates an amputee?
They may be divorced now, but one of the wealthiest rock stars on the planet – Sir Paul McCartney – picked a one-legged woman to marry out of all the other perfect women in the world. Is this a sign of insanity?
Read my blog on this unlikely pairing here
– Tiffiny, the fashionista paralyzed blogger (bio)
Latest Xable podcast: Susan Maus and U2fp
I just recorded this podcast with the fantabulous Susan Maus last week. She broke her neck in a roll-over in 2000, and subsequently (because she’s hardcore like that) became like, the best SCI advocate in the entire USA. She is so amazing.
You simply must listen, if not just to hear her discuss all the current (and exciting!) things happening in the field of SCI research. When I grow up I want to be just like Susan Maus.
Hop on over to the podcast aqui!
Oh, and we also talk about her involvement in U2FP and their planned rally in Chicago this summer. AND (the best part) you get to hear about the stripper my friends got me for me 1/2 birthday! FTW!
– Tiff
Freelance Writer For Hire
Need a well connected disability-genre expert to help give you fantastically fun, yet informative articles? Looking for content to draw in readership, and (hopefully) sponsors?
If so, then I’m your woman. I’ve been the resident SCI Life columnist for New Mobility magazine since 2004, author of Tiff’s Corner, a dating and relationship advice column for Lovebyrd.com since 2005, and have written freelance for nearly every major disability publication in the country.
I’ve also sucessfully branched out into non-disability publications, including Playgirl and Nerve.com.
And my latest foray into new media – podcasting – has turned into a weekly podcast series for women with disabilities called No Free Rides, for Xable.com.
Edgy, thought-provoking, dependable, and professional. That’s what you can expect from our partnership.
To contact me (email is preferred) and for resume requests, please use tiffiny@beautyability.com.
Happy 2009!
– Tiffiny C.
“Pity. It’s 100% Cureable”
I’m definitely loving the new ad campaign for the prominent disability children’s hospital here in Minnesota: Gillette.
Check it out here at NoPity.org.
– Tiff
PS. Pity has always been one of the most annoying things I’ve endured since becoming paralyzed. I’m glad they’re doing this.