(Daily Beast)
June 1, 2012
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA– [Excerpt provided by Inclusion Daily Express] When the Push Girls roll into a room, your eyes do not focus on the shiny wheelchairs underneath them. That’s because you really haven’t seen anything like this formidable posse before — five women bonded by the common obstacle life has thrown at them, but even more so by how they’ve chosen to handle it. Gorgeous, joyous, and sentenced to sit for the rest of their lives, it’s easy to comprehend why the Sundance Channel would find them worthy of their own series.
Push Girls, which premiereson June 4, isn’t like other unscripted franchises that put women together in the hopes of headline-grabbing catfights. The show, produced by Gay Rosenthal (Little People, Big World), depicts the reality of living with paralysis and how it doesn’t have to define a person’s life. That may sound really hokey, but spend some time with knockouts Angela Rockwood, Auti Angel, Mia Schaikewitz, Tiphany Adams, and Chelsie Hill, and you might be left pondering how you’ve handled your own setbacks.
“The people in our immediate lives have been able to deal with the paralysis and realize that this is not a tragedy,” said 33-year-old Schaikewitz, who became paralyzed at 15 when an arteriovenous malformation ruptured in her spinal cord. “It’s uplifted us and uplifted them. Only people we’ve had these intimate relationships have experienced it. What’s great about the show is the audience is going to be able to see that, whether they met us in person or not.”
The five women didn’t know each other when they were able to walk but now they’re as inseparable as Carrie Bradshaw and her Sex and the City cohorts. Angel, Schaikewitz, and Adams, who all live in Los Angeles, met serendipitously through Rockwood, a model and actress who became a quadriplegic nearly 11 years ago following a car accident. Two years ago, they all met 20-year-old Hill at a benefit and fast became the older sisters she always wanted.
Entire article:
Push Girls on Sundance: Summer’s Most Surprising Show
http://tinyurl.com/ide0601125a
Related:
Wheelchairs can’t slow these powerful ‘Girls’ (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/ide0601125b
Push Girls (Sundance Channel)
http://www.sundancechannel.com/push-girls/
THE PUSH GIRLS ARE HERE
All new original series premiering June 4th at 10p!
Planet of the Blind 
Quite awesome. Thinking on the glam aspect, it seems as if it certainly would be an extraordinary advantage to wear all the latest spikey-heel shoe fashions without actually needing to walk in them!
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