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my name is emily flores

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i am 19 years old and

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i am the founder and editor-in-chief of cripple

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media teenagers

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are so powerful and you're truly

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like a force be reckoned with

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you are never too young to

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start something they will definitely, not be easy,

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but the work you'll be doing will be so

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impactful

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computer genius generation apart

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hathaway healthy young people doing horrible things

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in the world of sam i'm your host

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after seventy for seo on science producer

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a writer and concentrate or with a phd

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in science communication onto these as the

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so we're talking to a more thorough who journal

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of in the found a cripple media a media company

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free concert that is actually of

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dunces evil people look i'm emily think

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his aunt face i did to be here so

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to start off or talk crippled meaty

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is the first media company that exclusively

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ran by disabled people can you give us a brief

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rundown as to what your company produces a

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surname as an ally for our

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ten of a bootstrap media companies

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that is really aiming to and

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produce authors can't have to really

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love resent the disability community tripoli

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also engage our community a bubble

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why was it important to have

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this type of representation in the digital said

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the power wheelchair because of mine

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of gators v and so

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humans are born in a wheelchair all my

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life when i was very young may notice that

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i stuck

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like a sore thumb

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my wheelchair was very loud and

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clunky and i felt like i

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took a few instances and i would try

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to find some type of refuge in media

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you know kind of like any kid does tv

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shows or books or like that but

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think what was starkly different for me so

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many other kids disabilities in fact

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the only representation that we have

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kids

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our stories that are you either

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like super super just sad

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tragic and

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the renaming are just as

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off our lives are

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inspirational just for living them

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i want to talk about the name in terms of

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labeling your media company a simple media

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like what was that significance you

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when we first launched the react

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that we i first got

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we're very shots like

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outraged before have to say confused

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as to why we ringing like that the

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main central reagan was when i

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lived as getting out like

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whatever platform i wanted to cripple

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to the only thing was most important

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to me as i was kind of seen

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a building it was on things that fault truly

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representative of all the word

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flair a club or a now hold a

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very special relationship with our

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community detail and pass

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the for you a season or lot of community

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members of trade him

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that cannot

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, notified or power he

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can eighty seven avoid that counterculture was

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an innocent little imagine that you from doing

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journalism and journalism very young age from us as shift

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of having shift of for others and to

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other types of stories and for wanting to

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create stories for yourself and starting to develop

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his ideas for cripple media

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i first started out and i'm doing

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reporting and kind of

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getting introduced to the world of journalism

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but i was fourteen at a time it

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was like my freshman of high school

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every weekend blink surname jobs

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pointing the grocery store bookstore

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was a wheelchair users so i was really by

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good be a beggar at a grocery stores

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oh and i won't

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have any like writing really

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the one thing that i

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really good doing i kind of just

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decided to google writing

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jobs for teens and thankfully

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actually found this really cool posting

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those actually looking for disabled

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team

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writer

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i thought it i knew nothing about journalism

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extent of my writing was fiction

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and like random scribbling

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and my google drive my first

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assignment as a reporter was

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the talk about the lack of representation there was

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disabled women in hollywood then

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i started reporting

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i target you flown

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always a thing as you collect resources

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that can i put people to talk to

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through the law our

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the other people like me

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oh my god i everything that

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i wanted a cell phone number of new

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the with of for the i never thought that

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i could carve a full of hope

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dr walking how are

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probably on one hand

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and co

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what better way to awful

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five

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my boy named sue more

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the pilot

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many many many many

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other voices

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what that ended a trying for you to have

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a month later way for drafting an

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hour and a magazine

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you know young people who are into

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the photo of like graphic design

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writing music

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the obama average and

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mean you know all those like same things

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that we were all kind of like motivated by

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one reason or two

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the color change the way that we're

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perceived and

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the run by a large

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also makes sense for ourselves

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and create what a few to fill a quota

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system edited plumber the fetus

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of development with cripple media

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i didn't even know where to start

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well i had finally over

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the idea what i'm gonna do a thing

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a magazine for other eighteen

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it was a whole new that

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i wanted focus on online because i knew that

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remote work with the most accessible for

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us and for

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the was really tricky figuring out how

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i can create and

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like what that entails what

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we need and into how often

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do a to publish how do we grow our

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pro

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the next up with the kind of just build

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all

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okay that i decided

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that we would go wise i took

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our social media com five i took her website

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lies and and out a call

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or social media

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i came to be are a newly

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established on a magazine where

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cripple magazine

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he are dedicated few really

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changing the way that we young

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say what people are we're

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looking for computers for ages thirteen

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too late twenties the people

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to hear from you

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want you want you to talk with you

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oh you i'm so cavalier the

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thing for you were able to all of our citizens

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and clinicians and on of word of mouth

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i want to go back kind of like the continental

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what are the ranger and types of

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stories you guys mostly focused on his and mostly

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house as they just kind of pop culture or

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even

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talk about like any science south on your

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problems we always wanted to really

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make sure that we current like a wide

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variety of things like really anything

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that anybody wanting to write about the

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they will people not only want to talk about the

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movie will form part about like literally everything

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and anything and maybe even with a disability angle

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the matter you know talk about or on extreme

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of course that is like essential

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of our outlet but also just literally

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anything like a van don't show

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or like a random specific chapter

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in a book recover pop culture news

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politics sack fashion

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or any sort of different stuff like that we

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kind of you inherently read about disability

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calling out able islam

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the one talking about calling out able as

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and can you give us example of how that looks

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one of our writers brianna see

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hard when our goal of ten

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movies that are famous

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for out there instability story the

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can have faith in each movie dollars

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why they are actually really

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really able his head the

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early release of god for learning

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about disability with you see the thickness

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of you face in launching is learning

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how to develop the listed as

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like a magazine and to really figure out like where

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out what you're trying to do

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mine was important value

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to us or since we started it was

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contributors to something that was

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really important to me as i started

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working as a journalist was that disabled

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people are woefully under

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paid for mean anything in the workforce

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but also of course particularly creative

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address and isn't even more

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so true for young people may

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ultimate dream for crippling for us to become

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an ally were young disabled people come

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from to as to start awfully working in the media

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i think the your

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i'm thing that so unique and nice

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i have no doubt that your goal of been able

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to provide for those that are developing your and

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to have the collaboration second health the same

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that have no doubt little happened to you with

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that big vision in mind where has

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been the impact of reality of our

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loud meanwhile to say this

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we've been insisting

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oh for

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years now we sit litter the

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is weird

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been able to messages from

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young people that have been falling out

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and bless the just things are so much food

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to see we received an email

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from

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twelve year old so

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high that you have a consensus in my absolute

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favorite the room

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that they were ,

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there's something here and little for

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and bother teacher showed

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them cripple media as that

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they were so excited and be

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fought so hard

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it is truly reaffirms the

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whole athletic

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i'll move on a local local law

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the whole country that by

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print version of the near time prevent

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futures are ya who suffers

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as a series of about we've been able

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to

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continue on or work

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what would you tell someone who has inspired

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fire worker want to do something similar

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in terms of neither creating an outlay or treating

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the community for identity that the alignment

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promo the you're never

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too young to start

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something

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athena easy it

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he lobby like a limo

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the flair and things up the working today

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will be

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one powerful and co co i

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think that teenagers are just

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so powerful as a truly like a four

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three reckoned and i'm really had

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about turning twenty

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by

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my i'll

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forever write a love letter through adolescence

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because and to think such a magical

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and difficult twist

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then you know rocky road far

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as a seal bernie sanders of along

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the way

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i love that from idea that if

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you can change one thing our current save the world

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will you change i would change the way

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that disability

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he in society

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either concert the you're constantly

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often we are really proceed with

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upon

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the boundary rooney

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dismantle the oppressors structures

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that kind of them him he does some also

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our societal attitudes around

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the and area types are surrounded

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i really hope that though that are contributing

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to year media outlet and to

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the story that you are covering are able to kind

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of like again continue to grow to sign away

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and be able to yeah make

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a change in and make a difference so it's really exciting

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for thank you so much emily i love this conversation

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you're still around you're so cool and really

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looking to fantasy the growth are

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already seen the growth and what's the new outlets

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immediately that any be developing thank

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you so much for this conversation oh thank

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you so much i appreciate so so much

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