January 31, 2012

1/31/12: Woman moves wheelchair car plant to US

Filed under: Wheelchair life — Tiffiny @ 11:54 am

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. Read More »

January 29, 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. Read More »

January 28, 2012

1/28/12: Meet forever rocker Jason Becker

Filed under: Disabilities in the media,Wheelchair life — Tiffiny @ 1:45 pm

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. Read More »

January 23, 2012

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.  Read More »

January 18, 2012

1/18/12: Paralyzed Scottish songstress loses battle with cancer

Filed under: Disabilities in the media — Tiffiny @ 12:56 pm

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

January 10, 2012

1/10/12: Disabled comic video-bombs North Korea

Filed under: Movies, TV to check out — Tiffiny @ 2:58 pm

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

January 8, 2012

1/8/12: “Beauty Through Damage” photo project

Filed under: Wheelchair fashion — Tiffiny @ 11:36 am

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.  Read More »