Entertainment & Lifestyle

Entertainment

RJ Mitte - Talking to The Telegraph

Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte: ‘I don’t want my tombstone to read “Here Lies Walt Jr”

RJ Mitte, Actor, Breaking Bad star and UCP celebrity ambassador, chats with The Telegraph about his latest roles, his sex-symbol status and how it’s helping to raise awareness for people with disabilities. “I like to talk about bringing awareness to this,” he says, “because so many people try to hide their disability. They try to lock it away because they think disability is not sexy, disability is not flattering… but that’s not the case.”

 

 

 

Margarita, with a Straw

Margarita, with a Straw: ‘The sexuality of the disabled excited me as a film-maker’

Director of Margarita, with a Straw, Shonali Bose discusses her film with The Guardian. The film is about a young Indian woman with cerebral palsy who falls in love with a blind girl. Her inspiration? When her cousin (who has CP) told her she wanted sex for her birthday.

 

 

 

 

ReelAbilities Upcoming Festivals

ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival – the largest festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities.

 

 

 

Music

Sean Gray, Venue Accessibility

This punk rock singer is documenting the true disabled accessibility of every music venue – Sean Gray, singer of a band called Birth (Defects) who happens to have disability, talks about venue accessibility with Fusion.net.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fashion

 

CP Shoes

CP Shoes – Do you go through shoes in what seems like every-other-month (or week!) due to your gait or other factors related to having a disability? CP Shoes is designed to let people vent their frustrations and show their shoes’ “wears.”

 

Other stories and resources

Nordstrom’s New Catalog Features Fashion Models with Disabilities

New York Fashion Week Features First-Ever Model In Wheelchair – by Maggie Freleng, Women’s eNews from the Huffington Post.

Adaptive Clothing Solutions – Professional Fit Clothing