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…
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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…
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…
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…
Make 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….