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Hero of the Week: This Disability Fashion Stylist is Fighting for Clothing That’s Adaptive — and Fun
What is the first thing you do, when you get up from a chair or get out of your car? You rearrange your clothing. But what if you are wheelchair-bound? Disability stylist Stephanie Thomas is fighting stereotypes and educating on the importance of adaptive design that works for all bodies: with or without disabilities.
From 10,000 global nominees,the Nobel of teaching was won by Kenyan science teacher and Franciscan Brother Peter Tabichi, who transformed a low-income school plagued by dropout and early marriage into one of Kenya’s top-performing. Not only that, but he’ll spending the $1 million prize on school upgrades and donations.
We’ve all had that one friend who is never single. As soon as they break up with someone, they’re already with someone else. But as much as we love the feeling of new butterflies, flitting from one committed relationship to the other without taking a moment is a dangerous game to play with your heart and well-being.
So you’ve split up and you probably don’t feel so great. Too bad, because you’re already in the race: who’s gonna win the breakup? Who’s gonna to look like they’re effortlessly moving on: you or the ex? But this race is a losers’ game and not winning is probably the best thing you can do for yourself.
A nerdy kid taking on a double course load at Harvard. A boy growing up in one of the poorest areas in the UK. A young mother surviving on welfare at the lowest point of her life. This is what Bill Gates, Idris Elba and J.K. Rowling’s lives were before they reached the height of their careers. So what’s their secret?
It was the moment of the Oscars night: Selma Blair, Hollywood it-girl of the ’00s, making her way down the red carpet, leaning on a cane and the arm of her manager. Sometimes tearful, sometimes struggling to control her body, but with her head held high, at her first major event since receiving her MS diagnosis. There was silence. Then there was applause.