The Disabled Magazine for the Abled Mind
Wishbone Awareness Day
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 [Read more...]
Communication’s Officer for the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
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? [Read more...]
Hershey’s, Please Change the world. End Child Slavery
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 a social issue. I thought I had done it all. We were ready to launch!
Or were we? [Read more...]
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 [Read more...]
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 neither candidate approached us the way they approached Latinos, women, and other minorities?
Trust me. I am a Latina. Over the telephone, on the Internet, my disability doesn’t show but somehow because my last name is Alvarez, the Latina in me has captured the attention of both presidential candidates. When their campaign volunteers call me to ask for my vote, I ask them, what is your candidate’s agenda for the physically disabled community? That question pretty much shuts them up. [Read more...]
Tide Pods make laundry safe, easy, and inexpensive.
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.
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 Lochte, Gabrielle Douglas and Lebron James did this past August I thought that America would embrace the Paralympics. I thought wrong.
Nathasha Alvarez
I tweeted about the Paralympics using my personal twitter handle @audaciouslady and Audacity Magazine’s twitter handle @audacitymagazin but still I didn’t feel the same excitement from others that I felt during the Olympics. On Facebook, my friends on my personal page weren’t making status statements about the Paralympics not even my friends with disabilities. Not even the parents of kids with disabilities. Were my expectations too high for my friends? For America?
Corporations like GE, McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble, and Visa are official sponsors of the Paralympics but would they still be if the Paralympics weren’t connected to the Olympics? Was it a forced two for one deal? Some of their commercials were aired during the Olympics featuring Paralymic athletes but now that the actual Paralympics are taking place those commercials are non-existent because the games aren’t being televised. What a shame! Think of the loyalty they would have received for their brands from people like me, or from the Paralympic athletes, their coaches, and their supporters.
The only thing to watch on television is reruns. Why couldn’t or wouldn’t NBC air the games during those times? How many times must NBC run Law & Order repeats? I flip through channels looking for something interesting to watch every night. I find nada! Over 100 channels! I thought one of them would air the Paralympics. I was wrong.
It’s not NBC’s fault, entirely. It is our fault as well. Mine, yours, and theirs. Social media is booming! We have Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and so many other social media platforms at our fingertips. Where is the fanfare for these athletes on these platforms? Audacitymagazine has a fan page. www.facebook.com/audacitymagazine
I’ve been posting about the Paralympic athletes on that page. I thought people would click the share link or comment on these amazing athletes. But, I was wrong.
How many Paralympic Games must quietly go on before we say enough is enough, these athletes deserve our primetime? Let’s not wait one more year! This year tell everyone you know about these audacious athletes like Karissa Whitsell who has seven medals to her name. Or Bryan Kirkland who has three medals. Or Trischa Zorn who has 46 medals! She has the most medals in the entire history of the Paralympics. These are American athletes and they deserve our loyalty.
What have you done to tell your Facebook friends, twitter followers, family members, neighbors, coworkers and strangers that you’re proud of these athletes?
You can watch it here. www.paralympic.org
Don’t let another year go by. Spread the word! Be audacious!
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 hard as any Olympian athlete. If we can have an African-American president then why can’t we have the Paralympics televised on NBC?
You would never think that there could be so much drama and suspense in transporting the disabled but in Miami, Florida it’s all that and more! Paratransit in Miami, Florida is operated by ATS, a company hired by the county to route the trips, take reservations and late vehicle calls. Under ATS are several transportation companies transporting clients based on their home address.
For example, the area where I live is serviced by the company, Zuni Transportation. [Read more...]
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