Quote from Article: "The company, called Patti and Ricky, now features over 100 adaptive fashion brands for adults and children. Many of the designers either have a loved one with a disability or are disabled themselves. But the company also did a bit of a pandemic-inspired pivot, in an effort to be more useful to customers who are highly vulnerable to severe Covid cases.
Plus, it recently started working with JCPenney on the retailer’s new line of adaptive clothing for kids...

Quote from Article: "In our art, life, and whatever we create, we must claim and tell our own stories. -Georgia Cranko-
Cranko continued: ‘I used to be fearful of using [disabled] to describe myself. I was scared to occupy the social space that risks opposite “abled” in people’s minds. This is why the common understanding of the disable/abled binary is just as damaging as other social boundaries...

Quote from Michelle Miles Website: "This work demonstrates an interest in how we conceal and reveal aspects of our identities, specifically through signifiers of disability — in this piece, using hands that are atrophied by a neuromuscular condition. The film becomes an investigation of a new way to represent disability in conversation with the symbols, colors, and gestures of classical art, where positive representations of disability are largely absent. The film hand model accentuates how...