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Roadmaps: Not What I Imagined for Us
Acclaimed authors Rebekah Taussig and Hannah Soyer supply views on the messiest questions on dwelling with incapacity. First up, how do you keep constructive on your family members whereas permitting your self to grieve the lack of the long run you had envisioned? If in case you have your individual questions on incapacity life, please submit them.
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Swap-It Vigo Provides Energy Wheelchair Customers Wi-fi Head Management
Not like conventional head-control items that depend on sensors within the headrest to regulate the wheelchair, the Vigo is a wi-fi headset that responds whenever you tilt your head. It’s designed to present customers an intuitive solution to function their energy wheelchairs. Switching modes on the Vigo additionally helps you to use it as a controller to work together with computer systems, sensible telephones or tablets, or as a Bluetooth headset for receiving calls.
Intercourse, Wheels and Relationships
Girls’s Pleasure
Girls, and particularly disabled girls, don’t typically have an opportunity to speak about sexuality. “I need to name B.S. And I need to name it for my feminine comrades. We’ve got a proper to speak about our our bodies, our needs, and our experimentation without having being pregnant as an excuse, and with out feeling disgrace or embarrassment,” Regan Linton wrote in 2017. Right here’s an unfiltered take a look at how girls reengaged with intercourse after paralysis.
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Easterseals Movie Problem Gives Disabled Expertise a Probability to Break into the Trade
Calling all disabled filmmakers and expertise: You’ve gotten the possibility to vie for over $150,000 in grants within the 2024 Easterseals Incapacity Movie Problem from April 2-7. Over the course of six days, contributors from everywhere in the world will write, shoot and edit a brief movie based mostly on this 12 months’s style, “Buddy Comedy.” Click on the hyperlink for more information and the best way to register.
imperfect Documentary Follows a Disabled Theater Firm Via a Manufacturing of the Musical Chicago
After making the competition rounds and receiving widespread essential acclaim, the documentary imperfect is now accessible on varied streaming platforms. Co-directed by longtime New Mobility columnist Regan Linton, imperfect follows skilled actors with disabilities at Phamaly, a disability-affirmative theater firm in Denver. Linton says she hopes the movie exhibits {that a} profession within the arts is feasible for folks with disabilities of every type.
