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	<title>Irked Magazine &#187; spina bifida</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t play me, pay me!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Campaign Watch, Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies, Irked Videos
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A provocative new campaign&#8230;after the jump

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The mother of the first actress with Asperger&#8217;s syndrome to play a fictional character with the condition has launched a campaign to stop actors &#8220;playing disabled&#8221;.
Lizzy Clark was 14 when the BBC asked her to play the part of Poppy, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheelchair fencing featured in the New York Times!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Janto]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mickey Zeljkovic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey Fencing Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paralympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spina bifida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — “Circle six, parry four, parry, riposte,” Mickey Zeljkovic chanted, running Bianca Hollywood, 13, through her fencing moves.
Bianca has spina bifida and a pronounced S curve to her spine. But when she wears her mask and lamé, the underjacket that conducts electricity during fencing bouts, she can compete with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rapidly-rising Aaron Fotheringham appears on Carson Daly!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Fotheringham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spina bifida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board
&#8220;He has always seen his disability
as kind of a fun thing.&#8221;


***
Remember 17-year-old Aaron &#8220;Wheelz&#8221; Fotheringham? We profiled him in December &#8216;08, and then again in July of this year.
Aaron&#8217;s awesome—he&#8217;s from Las Vegas, he&#8217;s in the Guinness Book of World Records, he&#8217;s trend-setting, he has spina bifida but doesn&#8217;t &#8220;exactly know what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOLLOW-UP: Revisiting 17-year-old hardcore sitter Aaron &#8220;Wheelz&#8221; Fotheringham</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Irked Videos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board, Irked Videos

Aaron &#8216;Wheelz&#8221; Fotheringham, who was featured on Irked last year, was recently the subject of a fantastic article and TV commercial appearing on the prestigious and award-winning website HowStuffWorks.com.

 
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Seventeen-year-old Aaron has invented an entirely new sport that blends the worlds of BMX and skateboarding with a unique twist. He calls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aaron Fotheringham perfects the art of “Hardcore Sitting”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board, Irked Videos

He was born and raised in Vegas. He&#8217;s 17 years young.
He&#8217;s been a wheelchair user since the age of three, and a fulltime wheelchair user since the age of eight.
He was born with Spina Bifida. His legs don&#8217;t work.
He&#8217;s one of a small, but growing group of elite wheelchair skateboarders. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zen, Riva Lehrer, and the Art of Disability</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/1088/zen-riva-lehrer-and-the-art-of-disability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Art Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Stonum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Shannon]]></category>
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&#8220;One of the most central aspects of Circle Stories is that the person sitting for me has control over their imagery, and that the portrait reflect their own honest experience, and as much as possible that I wouldn&#8217;t impose my own ideas to the detriment of their own reality.&#8221;

 
Riva Lehrer is a Chicago-based [...]]]></description>
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