The online voices of influencers with disability

Say what you will about social media, one clear benefit is the way it can connect us with peers from all over the world, elevate the voices and thoughts of people we might not come across, and – of course – serve as a source of alternative ideas for how to do life.

Across the next few months, we’re planning on highlighting a different influencer with disability in each edition of Choice and Insider.

And we’d love to hear from you! Is there someone you follow who you think the My Plan Manager community should know about? Please send us a direct message via Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn to share their details.

Up first is Canadian Tara Moss

A fashion model, author and now disability advocate after a diagnosis of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), Tara is smashing stigma and defying expectations. She lived in Australia before returning to her native Canada.

You’ll find her on Instagram as @taraandwolfie, where she shares her life as a disability advocate who uses a range of mobility aids – Wolfie is her name for her cane. Tara also has another Instagram account (@taramossauthor) for her life as a crime writer and 1940s-style enthusiast.

Or you might like to listen to her on the Mamamia No Filter podcast series, where she talks about receiving attention on the street, her ‘many lives’, her work, feeling more comfortable in her 40s than her 20s, and her disability and the embrace of the disability community.

As she said on a recent Instagram post:

“I’m so grateful for my mobility aids. Never let taboos and stigma stop you from getting the support you need. You deserve support. You deserve to be out in the world. You deserve to be visible as you are. YOU DESERVE IT.”