About the Blogger
My name is Tiffiny Carlson. I’m a C6 quadriplegic and a freelance writer. I’m the monthly SCI Life columnist for New Mobility, the country’s largest disability culture magazine, and I’ve been published in Penthouse, Playgirl and Nerve.com. I live in Minneapolis and am a graduate of Augsburg College.
I’ve been living with a spinal cord injury since a diving accident at the age of 14 and I’m driven by two missions – helping women with disabilities realize they’re beautiful inside and out and helping people with disabilities discover (and in some cases rediscover) their sexuality. You will find everything here from wheelchair fashion reviews to blogs highlighting the latest in spinal cord injury research. The full archive for BeautyAbility can be found here.
BeautyAbility is also home to my disability podcast, No Free Rides, a show featuring groundbreaking interviews with people with disabilities, covering a slew of hot-button issues. Also, check out my Dating on Wheels column, where I help out people in some pretty sticky dating situations. Send me your questions! [email protected]
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Another passion of mine is adapted yoga. I attend classes at the nationally renowned adapted yoga studio, Mind Body Solutions, founded by my friend (and paraplegic) Matt Sanford. I was fortunate enough to be a part of their new DVD that illustrates seated poses, called Beyond Disability: A Yoga Practice with Matthew Sanford.
Also, be sure to check out my fashion reviews covering the latest garments in the wheelchair fashion industry, including the latest additions from Izzy Camilleri (IZ Adaptive) and AgApparel. And my adapted makeup and beauty videos, found on my YouTube channel, are aimed to help women with limited dexterity learn how to put makeup on again. Enjoy my “Wheelchair 10 Commandments” video below!
Articles about me:
- Ai Insight: Fashion and Disability: Blending Style with Function
- Job Postings: Success Stories – Tiffiny Carlson
- The Gloss: Ask a Beauty Writer Who Uses a Wheelchair How to Look Good Sitting Down
Where you can find my writing online:
- Penthouse (September 2011): “The Would You Girls”
- Playgirl (July 2008) “Three’s a Company”
- Nerve.com (2005) “How I Discovered my Wheelchair Wasn’t a Chastity Belt”
- Read my blog for New Mobility: Spin 2.0
- Contributor to the The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Paralysis Resource Guide
- Blogger and writer for Disaboom.com (fashion article archive)
- ModCloth.com (blogs/reviews from a disabled female perspective)
- Easystand.com (regular blogger, read my blogs here)
- LegaWear.com (stylying adapted fashion blogs)
- Reviewer for TopTenREVIEWS.com
- Kids on Wheels magazine
- Halftheplanet.com
- United Spinal’s Action magazine (clip: “Wheelchair Fashion Manifesto“).
