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Ask a Girl in a Wheelchair

BuzzFeed invited fans to send in questions they’d like to ask a woman in a wheelchair and actor Santina Muha answered them via a video available at both BuzzFeed.com and YouTube. Here’s a sample:

Have you ever used your wheelchair as a weapon?
I’m not going to lie. There was a woman this one time at a Bruce Springsteen concert who was really getting on my nerves. So did I kind of ram into her ankles just a little bit? Prove it.

Acrophobics, Look Away!

A video of a wheelchair user parachuting from a tall building received over 10 million views worldwide after being shared by the Turkish newspaper, Mavi Kocaelli. Find the untitled video on the Facebook timelines of NEW MOBILITY or Mavi Kocaelli.

Dating in a Wheelchair: Your Problem Not Mine

The advice from my doctor was to check myself into a nursing home for the rest of my life, but I wanted a career, adventure, love, and sex.

Outside a jazz bar in Denver on Labor Day weekend, 1983, my friend and I met the man she would marry, who introduced me to the man I would subsequently marry. I was 28 and marriage was great. Our careers were going strong. He was a computer scientist. I was a civil rights lawyer. He was a nurturer and I was fiercely independent. Together our lives were better, easier than they were apart. He cut the lawn and did the laundry. I grocery shopped, cooked and paid the bills. We built our dream house. And people told me all the time what a saint he was for marrying me. Which was so insulting, suggesting that I brought nothing to the table. And yet, I felt lucky, as if I had been pulled off the seconds shelf.

Then, we divorced. He had a mid-life crisis and ran off with another woman — sigh. People often asked if I was disabled before we got married. When I told them I was their response was: “Oh well, he knew what he was getting himself into then.” (Honestly, people have no idea what they are saying sometimes).
— Anne Thomas, New York Times Live, Women in the World,