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Ep 80: Fashion
Today’s episode is about fashion with Stephanie Thomas. Stephanie is a Disability Fashion Styling Expert and Founder and CEO of Cur8able, a business dedicated to the art and science of dressing with disabilities. For over two decades she’s researched clothing and retail trends exclusively for people with disabilities. As an amputee herself, Stephanie believes this is more than her profession, it’s her lived experience. You’ll hear about how she got into fashion, what it’s like being a disabled entrepreneur, what it means to be a stylist, and more.
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Stephanie Thomas, a Black woman with oval shaped eyes, round nose, smiling. Her chin is resting on her clasped hands. Her hair locs are pulled up in a high bun and wearing a sleeveless black top. The background is a grayish black backdrop. My condition’s name is Symbrachydactyly. I am a congenital amputee missing digits on my right hand and feet. Photo credit: Benjo Arwas @benjoarwas
Born a congenital amputee missing digits, Los Angeles-based Stephanie Thomas is the CEO of Cur8able, a disability fashion stylist, and editor of Cur8able.com a lifestyle blog at the intersection of fashion and disability. She curates the blog according to her disability fashion styling system. Also, Stephanie is a trusted voice actor, audio describer, and member of the SAG AFTRA actors with disabilities committee.
Stephanie holds graduate degrees in communication and fashion journalism. She is also the author and editor of Fitting In: An Anthology of the Social Implications of Fashion and Dressing with Disabilities, coming August 2020. Recently Stephanie participated in the Instagram based #sharethemicnow campaign where she was matched with Selma Blair and took over Selma’s Instagram account for a day. The premise of the #sharethemicnow was to give black women access to audience of the women they were matched with.
New Textbook:
Features:
Website : www.cur8able.com
Instagram | Twitter | Facebook @cur8able
Stephanie Thomas Instagram @disabilityfashionstylist
TEDx TALK: Stephanie Thomas: Dressing with Disabilities
Support Disability Media and Culture
DONATE to the Disability Visibility Project®
Credits
Cheryl Green, Audio Producer and Text Transcript
Alice Wong, Writer, Audio Producer, Host
Lateef McLeod, Introduction
Mike Mort, Artwork
Theme Music (used with permission of artist)
Song: “Dance Off”
Song: “Hard Out Here for A Gimp”
Album: NO BIG DEAL
Artist: Wheelchair Sports Camp
Music
“Onwards Upwards” by Ketsa. (Source: freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.)
Sounds
“VOCODER countdown” by Jack_Master. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
“8 Bit Beeping Computer Sounds” by sheepfilms. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
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Today’s episode is about fashion with Stephanie Thomas. Stephanie is a Disability Fashion Styling Expert and Founder and CEO of Cur8able, a business dedicated to the art and science of dressing with disabilities. For over two decades she’s researched clothing and retail trends exclusively for people with disabilities. As an amputee herself, Stephanie believes this is more than her profession, it’s her lived experience. You’ll hear about how she got into fashion, what it’s like being a disabled entrepreneur, what it means to be a stylist, and more.
Transcript
[Google doc] [PDF]
About
Stephanie Thomas, a Black woman with oval shaped eyes, round nose, smiling. Her chin is resting on her clasped hands. Her hair locs are pulled up in a high bun and wearing a sleeveless black top. The background is a grayish black backdrop. My condition’s name is Symbrachydactyly. I am a congenital amputee missing digits on my right hand and feet. Photo credit: Benjo Arwas @benjoarwas
Born a congenital amputee missing digits, Los Angeles-based Stephanie Thomas is the CEO of Cur8able, a disability fashion stylist, and editor of Cur8able.com a lifestyle blog at the intersection of fashion and disability. She curates the blog according to her disability fashion styling system. Also, Stephanie is a trusted voice actor, audio describer, and member of the SAG AFTRA actors with disabilities committee.
Stephanie holds graduate degrees in communication and fashion journalism. She is also the author and editor of Fitting In: An Anthology of the Social Implications of Fashion and Dressing with Disabilities, coming August 2020. Recently Stephanie participated in the Instagram based #sharethemicnow campaign where she was matched with Selma Blair and took over Selma’s Instagram account for a day. The premise of the #sharethemicnow was to give black women access to audience of the women they were matched with.
New Textbook:
Features:
Website : www.cur8able.com
Instagram | Twitter | Facebook @cur8able
Stephanie Thomas Instagram @disabilityfashionstylist
TEDx TALK: Stephanie Thomas: Dressing with Disabilities
Support Disability Media and Culture
DONATE to the Disability Visibility Project®
Credits
Cheryl Green, Audio Producer and Text Transcript
Alice Wong, Writer, Audio Producer, Host
Lateef McLeod, Introduction
Mike Mort, Artwork
Theme Music (used with permission of artist)
Song: “Dance Off”
Song: “Hard Out Here for A Gimp”
Album: NO BIG DEAL
Artist: Wheelchair Sports Camp
Music
“Onwards Upwards” by Ketsa. (Source: freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.)
Sounds
“VOCODER countdown” by Jack_Master. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
“8 Bit Beeping Computer Sounds” by sheepfilms. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
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