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Fire Through Dry Grass Shows Wheelchair Users’ Fight to Stay Safe at a COVID-19 Hotspot
Photo by Gary Dean Clarke/@garydeanclarke Three and a half years after the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, a new documentary reveals the appalling conditions faced by a group of working-age wheelchair users at the government-run Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center in New York City. Fire Through Dry Grass was produced by the wheelchair users who […]
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Victoria’s Secret Launches Adaptive Collection
Victoria’s Secret and PINK launched their first-ever adaptive collection of bras and panties on Tuesday. The intimates are available in a variety of colors and prints and feature magnetic closures, front strap adjusters, and sensory-friendly fabric. Wheelchair user and model Bri Scalesse stars in the Victoria Secret’s Adaptive campaign wearing the VS Adaptive Body by […]
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Full Circle Documentary Follows the Tracks of Two Boundary-Pushing Wheelchair Users
Kennison drops into Corbet’s Couloir. In February 2019, Trevor Kennison did something that no sit-skier had done before. At a professional ski/snowboard contest in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he launched himself off a snow cornice into Corbet’s Couloir, one of the most difficult and legendary ski runs in North America. At the time, Kennison was a […]
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Disability Ink Goes Mainstream
Erika Bogan by BAW Photography Mine is innocuous enough. It’s a little gecko on my lower abdomen that I got while attending the University of Florida’s homecoming in my freshman year of college. There is no particular meaning attached to it other than I was having a really good time with great friends. Subsequent tattoos, […]
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Making the Biggest Music Festivals in the U.S. More Accessible
The two-weekend, six-day Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, in Indio, California, is one of the most famous and well-attended annual music events in the U.S. With over 100,000 attendees packed into a sprawling venue and 100-degree desert temperatures, it’s also a potential nightmare for accessibility. Austin Whitney, the festival’s ADA compliance coordinator, is responsible […]
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AI Image Contest Draws Striking Entries
AI image by Srivats Shankar We recently asked to see disability-related images you created using the mind-blowing advancements in artificial intelligence. We got the idea when Pete Aviles, a paraplegic business owner and designer, sent us some of his creations on the platform Midjourney. “You can make visionary art, or you can make it look […]
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Meet the Wheelchair User and TikTok Influencer Featured on the Latest Season of Queer Eye
The recently released Season 7 of the Netflix series Queer Eye features Ray “Speedy” Walker, who sustained a C8 spinal cord injury in a 2020 car accident and gained popularity sharing his story on TikTok. After being nominated for the show by his teachers, he spends a week with the Fab Five, the show’s stars […]
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Disabled Writers and Actors Strike for a Better Future
Photo by J.W. Hendricks Hollywood is at a standstill. The Writers Guild of America, the union that represents 11,500 screenwriters, and the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, representing 160,000 actors, are both on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. These are the writers and actors […]
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Tell Us What You Want New Mobility to Cover in 2024
Each year we receive hundreds of great ideas that form the core of the magazine and website. Our collaboration and the special relationship we have with our community has helped us stay fresh and vital and our collective knowledge has unquestionably helped thousands, if not millions of wheelchair users. So how do we keep helping […]
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5 Summer Reading Picks for Wheelchair Users
As the only NM contributor I know who also worked as a CIA analyst, Otis has skills in all types of different areas. The juxtaposition of these two books is more proof. True or False is a must-read nonfiction guide to the all-too-fictitious world we live in, while At the Speed of Lies is her […]