Feminist, author, disability activist, Andrea Rita Dworkin suffered from an agonizing bone disease for many years. She describes her disability with grim humor and shares her worst moments and triumphs in overcoming crippling pain…
Category: Personal Spinal Injury Stories
Wheelchair users with spinal cord injury and other disabilities tell their personal stories.
Influential Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) painted images of a disabled female body. Striking self portrait’s of her own trauma following a tram car accident in 1925 in which she suffered spinal column and spinal cord injuries. Frida Kahlo paintings and artworks are an artists journey through pain trauma and recovery.
Winner of the Audience Award and the Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992 The Waterdance is a film about coming to terms with paralysis and wheelchair life. Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to cope with his new found disability and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as…
At seventeen Tasha Amadi became a quadriplegic after a diving accident training for a school swimming gala. An avid swimmer and scholar admired by her peers Tasha’s world was turned upside down. “The moment I hit the water I couldn’t feel my body. I floated around in the water face down, unable to get up. I saw blood in the water (I must have bitten my tongue) and heard my friend telling me to stop messing around and that I wasn’t being funny.” Her courage and determination saw her complete school with distinctions and go on to inspire all who meet her…
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