Fashion Wheelchairs

Saw this on my pal Kim's journal -- designer wheelchairs. I want to smack them for calling the models "roll models" (it's too cheesy even for me), but I love the idea of a wc in something other than black vinyl. My hackles are up a bit at their focus just on women with spinal cord injuries, or even just on women only, but I suppose they have to start somewhere. I'm in the early stages of thinking about writing to the organization, not because I want to be a wheelchair fashion diva -- unless they want to give me a free wc -- but because I'm interested in knowing if they are going to do this again, if they are considering expanding their repertoire of models beyond SCIs, and if they are considering doing power chairs.

Now if I could just come up with that idea for the book with a gimp main character that will sell millions worldwide and get made into a movie where the character is played by an actual gimp, we'd REALLY be on the way to making ABs realize gimps are people, too.

::turns hopeful eyes across the pond to Nate:: If you feel like helping, even just to develop a plotline, just let me know.

::looks to Anita and Jess:: You two can jump in anytime, as well.