“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

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.

Yes, that is a real AK-47

As a practicing pagan and certified herbalist, not to mention being only 2’7″ tall, to say Jane Hash’s life is “unique” would be a understatement. Her badass attitude and dark humor make her one of my favorite guests yet. The cajones she has to be who she is, openly and with no apologies, is an example for everyone. Jane is also a political activist, a blogger and is finishing up filming a documentary about her life that’s taken nearly 3 years to complete titled, Plain Jane.

Also in this episode, Tiffiny talks about two of her recent blogs, including her blog on the creepy documentary that discusses disability in North Korea, The Red Chapel, and the upcoming reality show featuring four women who use wheelchairs that’s premiering on the Sundance Channel in April - Push Girls.

Use the player below to hear the show (56 minute run time). No Free Rides is sponsored by EasyStand.com.

Music by Lupe Fiasco ft. Evidence – ‘Catch Me’

- Jane’s blog: The Adventures of The Gimp Avenger

- Jane’s podcast: Hashing It Out With Jane for KUSF-In-Exile

- Watch the trailer for her documentary: Plain Jane

- Jane’s Facebook Group

- Jane’s funny videos: 1 Dwarf, 1 Cup, THE LITTER-BOX INCIDENT, 5 GUYS 1 DWARF

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. 

I’m so freaking excited about this show. I’m friends with one of these ladies (Tiphany) and I can guarantee this will make for some good TV, and will do so much to help show the world that we can still be beautiful and sexual. Is it finally happening? To the show’s producer Gay Rosenthal, I give you a cookie.

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- Tiff

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

If you like ballsy felines in wheelchairs who womanize, talk via a mechanical voice, and do lines of cocaine, then the skit, “Wheelchair Cat: Trust Fund Kitty” starring Mr. Stitches, from Nick Swardson’s upcoming Pretend Time (coming to Comedy Central this fall!), is going to make you reeeeally happy.

As a wheelchair-user, I was like OMG when I first saw this. Nick may not be in a wheelchair, but damn he got this humor fucking perfect. No wonder Adam Sandler scooped him up from Minneapolis a few years ago and brought him to LA to write movies with him. And the fake cat body with a real cat head, so the cat really looks like he’s sitting in a wheelchair like a human, is possibly the funniest thing about the skit.

If you’re not familiar with Nick Swardson, he’s best known for his character Terry Bernadino on Reno 911 (gay whore on rollerskates!), and was also the insane Bowie fan in Almost Famous.

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Read more about Redneck Ninjas and it’s awesome characters on Drew’s official site here.

I need to starting posting good music again! Here’s a funky song by definitive hip-hop group, Blackalicious, that I listen to whenever I feel the need for an infusion of swagger (and yes, it totes works).

The talented Alexis Ostrander, as well as the Defining Beauty Team, have made an amazing documentary called Defining Beauty, a film that highlights all of the gorgeous and inspiring women in the Ms. Wheelchair America pageant. Vote for her film to win $25k as part of the Pepsi Refresh Project!

Cherylee Houston will be playing a feisty woman who’s attracted to bad boys on one of the longest running soap operas in television history, Coronation Street. Read the blog