Crystal Renn chats with TIME Magazine about body image
Filed under: Themes, The Skinny on Fat, Interviews Six years ago, Crystal Renn was an unknown size-0 model who moved to New York from Clinton, Mississippi, to make it big. She struggled with her weight...
View ArticleA revealing interview with Ladyhawke
Filed under: Themes, Auties & Aspies, Interviews Ladyhawke—aka Pip Brown (whose debut album “Ladyhawke,” produced by Modular Recordings, is out now)—sat down with pedestrian.tv recently and opened...
View ArticleURGENT APPEAL: Save New Moon Girl Media from going out of business!
Filed under: Campaign Watch If you’re the parent of a daughter between the ages of 8 and 12, chances are you’ve heard of a wonderful and empowering magazine called “New Moon Girls” (and its sister...
View ArticleMr. Jaylen Arnold featured on CBS Evening News!!!!!!
Filed under: Campaign Watch, Irked Videos, Themes, Auties & Aspies, QuIrked Kids Back in July, we introduced you to a very, very amazing young man named Jaylen Arnold—who has had Tourette’s...
View ArticleGeneral Corporate Assholery
Filed under: Campaign Watch A 47-year-old wheelchair-bound mother who had a stroke 18 months ago has been forced to do her banking on the street after staff at her local NatWest branch refused to lift...
View ArticleKaren Putz explores The Shame of Wearing (Fashionable) Hearing Aids
Filed under: Themes, Deaf Jam Quoting the always-always-always entertaining Karen Putz, writing on her website deafmomworld.com: I came across a post this morning, The Shame of Wearing Hearing Aids,...
View ArticleGeneral Corporate Assholery
Filed under: Campaign Watch The family of an 11-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has accused the Blackpool Transport tram company of abandoning her on a day out after they refused to carry her...
View ArticleJennifer Wilding knocks one out of the park…
Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board Here now is a truly, truly beautiful essay—titled “My wheelchair makes me invisible.” It was written by Toronto’s Jennifer Wilding (who temporarily needs...
View Article“Happy now?”: An honest and magnificent new essay about depression by Anna Quon
Filed under: Themes, The UpDown Report, Books & Book Reviews . This year I fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming a published novelist. The whole process of getting my book “Migration Songs” ready...
View ArticleMore Jaylen Arnold!
Filed under: Campaign Watch, Irked Videos, Interviews, Auties & Aspies, QuIrked Kids . Sue Scheff recently interviewed the great Jaylen Arnold for examiner.com. Their conversation was so engaging...
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