disabilities
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Beauty, Brains and Bravery: Remembering Mama Cax
It is with profound sadness that The Glow Up learned today that one of our favorite models and activists, Cacsmy “Mama Cax” Brutus, has died at age 30. Fondly called Cax by her colleagues and clients in the fashion industry, the Haitian American broke new ground as an in-demand model who’d survived cancer as a…
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Developmentally Disabled Man Awarded $8 Million After Found Living Alone With Hundreds of Rats
After his caretaker mother died about 20 years ago, Vernon Gray, a disabled man, was left living in an increasingly dilapidated home overrun by as many as 500 rats. Now the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services has agreed to pay the 64-year-old man $8 million for failing to check on him.…
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Lupita Nyong'o on Us Doppelgänger Controversy: 'I Crafted Red With Love and Care'
After just delivering the highest grossing opening weekend film headlined by a black woman, you would think Us star Lupita Nyung’o would be on the highest of highs. But unfortunately, her performance as Red—the deranged doppelgänger of matriarch Adelaide—has drawn outrage from the disabled community due to its perceived insensitivity. In discussing the role, Nyung’o…
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Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive Is Making Fashion More Accessible
When you got dressed this morning, how much thought did you put into it? No, I don’t mean picking an outfit; I mean, how much thought and effort did you have to exert actually putting on your clothes? For 1 in 5 Americans living with a disability, getting dressed each day is just another challenge…
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The Glow Up Gaze: Mama Cax Is Redefining the Runway
When you meet model, blogger and advocate Mama Cax—Cax, for short—you’re not sure where to look first: at her gleaming brown skin and bald head, her sculpted features, whatever ridiculously sick ensemble she’s put together just to tool around town or her equally stylized prosthetic leg cover (one of 15 she owns)—a latticework of metal…