, many of them Black women or women of color, and that whomever he chooses will be just the third female vice-presidential candidate in history. Should it be Illinois senator Tammy Duckworth, it would also mark the first time a female veteran is on the ticket, and she would be the first female candidate who uses a wheelchair.
Being first isn’t new for Duckworth: She was the first Thai-American woman elected to Congress; the first woman with a disability elected to Congress; the first female double-amputee in the Senate; and the first Senator to give birth while in office. She’s been using a wheelchair since 2004 after she lost her legs in an airstrike in Baghdad serving in the U.S. Army.
, a New York nonprofit that develops functional clothing with and for disabled people. “And there is no adaptive workwear, because people just think disabled people don’t work. With Tammy hopefully being the VP nominee, it would show [the public] that people with disabilities can be successful.
kateStrasdin SenDuckworth The line that gets me: people feeling manipulated by Sen Duckworth wearing a skirt. Seriously? How is that manipulative? Wtf is wrong with people?