Sue Austin has been a wheelchair user since 1996, but has dedicated herself to “finding ways to understand and represent my embodied experience as a wheelchair user, opening up profound issues about methods of self-representation and the power of self-narration in challenging the nexus of power and control that created the ‘disabled’ as other.” She developed the chair with help from dive experts who installed two dive propulsion units on it as well as a bespoke fin to help with steering.
radical mermaid power
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Would you like to know how easy President Barack Obama is making it for you to vote?
The Obama campaign released an embeddable voter registration form that you can insert into any of your websites, including tumblr.
I don’t think you guys understand, President Obama is letting you get registered to vote from tumblr.
This must be what life was like for The Jetsons.
Yeah, this is pretty rad.
Easy to do. SO DO IT.
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400 trees to be removed for Endeavour’s L.A. arrival: For some South L.A. residents, the excitement of Endeavour rumbling through their neighborhoods en route to the California Science Center faded when they learned that 400 trees had to be cut down.
Photo: A landscaping crew cuts down a tree on Manchester Boulevard to clear the way for the space shuttle Endeavour when it makes its journey from Los Angeles International to its new home in Exposition Park. Credit: Katie Falkenberg / For The Times
I’m really excited that Endeavour is coming to my hometown, but this is bullshit.
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Ann Romney on love.
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