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Tiffy at Fidgets and Fries

Post author By KCFitch
Post date December 8, 2022

Tiffy, Black Goddess with chocolate brown skin. Smiling. Skin looking hydrated and stress doesn’t cross her soft features. Tiffy carries under eye baggage but that’s genetic. She isn’t actually tired in this shot, she just got eyes too big for the space allotted for them. She is looking at the camera, teeth gap on full display, nose wide and proud, gifts from her ancestors. Eyebrow hairs doing what they want, they cannot be tamed. Long gray, white, and black tresses frame her face, falling past her shoulders. She was cute this day….and all days, really. (ID by Tiffany Hammond)

Tiffany Hammond (aka “Tiffy”) is an author, poet, and disability self-advocate who shares her family’s story at the Fidgets and Fries page on Facebook. Her first children’s book, “A Day with No Words,” is forthcoming in spring of 2023.

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“A Day with No Words,” is Tiffany Hammond’s first children’s book and is based on her son, who uses augmented and alternative communication (AAC) to communicate.

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Jennifer at Giraffe Party

Post author By KCFitch
Post date December 8, 2022

Background is a color spectrum gradient, in a slight swirl pattern with white highlights and flecks of white indicating brightness and/or sparkles. Text at the top center of the graphic reads "GIRAFFE" in black sans-serif bubble block letters, outlined in purple. Text at the bottom center of the graphic reads "PARTY 2.0" in the same font style and colors. In the center is vectorized art of a giraffe's face. The giraffe has a serene look and is wearing large black-rimmed glasses. The giraffe is wearing a lampshade on the top of its head, featuring thick vertical striping in various teal shades. The giraffe also has a pink striped noisemaker sticking out of the side of its mouth, with various colored streamers sticking out of the noisemaker. ID by Giraffe Party.

Jennifer, the advocate behind Giraffe Party, describes themselves as

Nonbinary (she/they)
autistic adhd ocd ptsd
aka neurodivergent AF
multiply-disabled

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Question of the Day (form): People can submit questions to be answered on the Giraffe Party Facebook page. The page is followed by a diverse variety of people with disabilities, who are often generous with lived experiences with disability.

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Nina Tame

Post author By KCFitch
Post date April 26, 2022

A photograph of Nina Tame smiling, wearing a black dress with pink polka dots, sitting in her wheelchair in a bright green room. The wheel of her wheelchair is accessorized with a colorful floral pattern.

Nina Tame describes herself in bullets as:

Disability activist
Often wordy
Sometimes sweary
The Disabled Step-Mum you never knew you needed
She/ Her/ They/ Them

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Disabled is Not a Bad Word (Valuable 500 opinion piece)

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Andrew D. Pulrang

Post author By KCFitch
Post date January 15, 2022

Aldrew Pulrang is a Caucasian man with glasses. He is seated in a power chair and wearing a red sweater. Visible at his collar line is a tracheostomy tube.

Andrew D. Pulrang is a writer and disability activist who created the hashtag, #CripTheVote.

He is a regular contributor to Forbes and self-publishes at Disability Thinking.

Articles and Links

3 Disability Microaggressions and Why They Matter (Forbes article)
Ableism is More Than a Breach of Etiquette – It Has Consequences (Forbes article)

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Lydia X. Z. Brown

Post author By KCFitch
Post date January 13, 2022

Lydia X.Z. Brown is an Asian American nonbinary person, wearing a blue suit coat and matching neck tie. They wear a short hair cut, tinged with blue and black rimmed glasses and are smiling.

Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, educator, attorney, strategist, and writer.

Their work focuses on addressing state and interpersonal violence targeting disabled people living at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, faith, language, and nation. For their full biography, see their website.

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Samantha Renke

Post author By KCFitch
Post date January 12, 2022

Samantha Reinke, a woman with blond hair and blue eyes, smiles for a professional head shot. She is wearing a red blouse and makeup.

Samantha Renke is an actor, presenter, disability and inclusion consultant, and disability rights activist, based in the U.K.

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Alice Wong

Post author By KCFitch
Post date January 6, 2022

Alice Wong, an Asian American woman, sits in a power chair. She is wearing red jacket with a decorative tie at her neck. She is also wearing a mask over her nose attached to a gray tube and bright red lip color. She is smiling at the camera

Alice Wong is a disabled activist, writer, editor, media maker, and consultant.

She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.