BeautyinDisability

Building Nigeria’s first access architecture company for PWDS.
Designing tools, media & beauty tech to make inclusion the new default.

[Sir Chris @Chrisllionaire]

This Australian woman came to Nigeria for just two weeks… a few mosquito bites later, she woke up with both legs gone.

Stephenie Rodriguez thought it was a normal trip. 15 days later, she collapsed mid-flight. Cerebral malaria.

2 weeks in a coma. 47 surgeries. And in the end, doctors had to amputate both legs to keep her alive.

All from a few bites.

Malaria still k!11s about 600,000 people every year, mostly African children. It’s not as “normal” as people treat it.

[BeautyinDisability @BiDisability]

#AlgorithmBias
#CreatorEconomy #BeautyinDisability
#DisabilityTech
#MondayVision
#CountUsIn

[BeautyinDisability @BiDisability]

Social media algorithms don’t care about disability. They care about high-valence emotion. The problem? In the digital attention economy, "high-valence" almost always translates to Trauma Performance. 🧵👇🏾

[BeautyinDisability @BiDisability]

Disabled people are more than their worst days. But the algorithm will never know that until we change what we reward.

We aren't content for your feed; we are the architects of the future. Count us in.

[adeloye omolaja @Consultinglaja]

Today is World Parkinson’s Day. But we aren't here for "awareness."

Let's talk about Signal Integrity. Parkinson’s isn’t just "shaking." It’s a systemic failure where the brain’s instructions are dropped before they reach the hardware (the body). 🧵👇🏾

[BeautyinDisability @BiDisability]

Disabled Creators Friday: Jillian Mercado.
Model. Actress. IMG talent. Wheelchair user.
One of these things made her different.
The rest made her successful.

#DisabledCreatorsFriday #JillianMercado

[BeautyinDisability @BiDisability]

Jillian Mercado didn't ask the fashion industry for permission.
She walked into casting calls with muscular dystrophy and a wheelchair, and booked Diesel.
🧵

[BeautyinDisability @BiDisability]

Economic empowerment > representation.
Jillian didn't need a magazine to write a "feel-good story" about her.
She needed casting directors to see her as a model, not a symbol.
She got paid. She built a career. That's the goal.

[BeautyinDisability @BiDisability]

This is how far we've come.

#ThrowbackThursday
#Colombia
#LandmineSurvivors #DisabilityRights

[BeautyinDisability @BiDisability]

In 1999, Colombia had one of the highest landmine casualty rates in the world.
11,000+ people injured or killed.

Most became amputees or wheelchair users.

The government offered charity.

Landmine survivors said: We want rights.

🧵

[BeautyinDisability @BiDisability]

The lesson:

Charity keeps you dependent. Rights make you free.

Landmine survivors didn't accept pity. They demanded justice.