Wishbone Awareness Day

Wishbone Awareness Day: Sharing On Facebook

I know my OI people are loving Wishbone Awareness Day all around the world. I know this because we have the Internet to keep us sharing every move we make in our lives. Isn’t that awesome? I love seeing how people with my disability live their lives on a day-to-day basis. I look

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Communications Director for the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program

Higher Education: The Missing Piece in the UN Resolution for Worldwide Disability Rights

As the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) prepares to begin its ninth session April 15 – 19, 2013, are they missing the role that higher education plays in developing social and economic equality?

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Hershey's Kisses with Child Slavery is a bad Combination

Kiss Our First Giveaway Goodbye!

We were so excited about our first giveaway. Hershey’s Kisses was willing to donate six months worth of chocolate to the lucky winner. I spoke to several people whose opinion I valued about this giveaway. I did research on how to have a successful giveaway. I did research about how to connect a giveaway to [...]

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Audacity Magazine's Hershey's Kisses Giveaway

Audacious Giveaway Alert! Six Months of Kisses

Audacity Magazine is having its first giveaway! We are extremely excited. Not only because it’s a way for us to give back to you, our audacious supporters but, the giveaway prize is delicious! No one can have just one and not desire another one. That’s right! Chocolate Hershey’s Kisses for the next six

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Kara Ayers

Desperation Porn: The Impact of Graphic Medical Images on the Disability Community

          As an adult with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), I love the opportunity that social networking affords me to connect with my community. I consider it a gift to welcome a new baby with OI through a flurry of photo comments and I’ve enjoyed witnessing the

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Creativity

Dear Presidential Candidates, My Vote Counts

It will be over by tomorrow. We will know the results of our presidential election. No more ads. No more pandering to certain groups with promises of a better future.  Can’t wait, right? If you think about it, how would we, the physically disabled community, know how it felt to have our vote courted when [...]

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Tide Pods make laundry safe, easy, and inexpensive.

5 Reasons Physically Disabled People Should Use Tide Pods

I hate doing the laundry. It is one of the least wheelchair friendly housecleaning chores in my life! However, Tide Pods have given me an entire clean outlook on laundry duty. Here are 5 reasons why you should use Tide Pods if you are physically disabled.   Let’s face it! These days there are too [...]

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Paralymic Pride

This past Wednesday, the 2012 Paralympic Games opened in London, England. The ceremony was live on the Internet. It appears NBC didn’t think it befitting to televise the ceremony on any of its stations. With over 4,200 athletes with physical disabilities from around the world, competing for the gold just like Olympians Michael Phelps, Ryan [...]

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girl2compl

Paralympics Deserve Equal Air Time and Social Media Coverage, Don’t You Agree?

  The Winter Olympics will soon be over and people will go back to their routine lives thinking that the best athletes in the world have done their job and our on their way home.  But that would be totally inaccurate and a slap in the face to the Paralympic athletes who have trained as [...]

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