Sassy, admittedly stubborn, and sometimes pink-haired, Gem Turner is visibly disabled and uses a wheelchair. She’s fighting for more visibility and body positivity. https://www.instagram.com/p/BS9ZaLWFJY2/?taken-by=gem_turner On her 24th birthday, Gem Turner listed 24 things she has learned thus far in life for her blog. Number four sounded particularly liberating: “I don’t have to tell my life...
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Style Crush: Gigi Giscome
This week’s StyleCrush is Bay area disability rights activist and fashionista Giovana “Gigi” Giscome. She has hit the runway several times this year, including at the pivotal Queer Fashion Week 2016, making a splash in both the Bay Area and national fashion arenas. An outspoken proponent of the rights of people with disabilities, Giscome has...
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StyleCrush: Pretty Cripple’s Magdalena Truchan
This week’s StyleCrush is life-long New Yorker, Magdalena Truchan of the Pretty Cripple blog. A first generation Polish-American, Truchan’s family emigrated from Poland in the ’60s and settled in Queens. Truchan has traveled with the assistance of a wheelchair since the ’90s. With a love of art, music, artisanal food, great fashion — especially hats! —...