Leuty Parker

Tag: #aspiration

  • Cinderella Explained

    I assume most people know Cinderella…

    A story about a girl ground down by neglect and cruelty who gets one brief night of escape, glitter, and possibility.

    She steps out of the ashes and into candlelight, into music, into being seen. Then midnight comes. The carriage splinters back into a pumpkin, the silk collapses into rags, and the illusion dies.

    All that remains on the cold palace floor is a single glass slipper, fragile, sharp, but unmistakably real.

    It is not costume or disguise, but proof. The slipper holds the shape of her foot like memory holds the shape of truth. It cannot belong to anyone else.

    Everything borrowed disappears, but identity does not. The world can take the magic, the beauty, the moment. But it cannot erase the fit of who she is.

    I’m thinking, miss you seen below our MY glass slipper(s).

  • Alice Wong

    Following on from my posts about surviving brain injury, I’m increasingly interested on where such a life changing experience is taking me next. My ambition still sits firmly in the wearable-tech-o-sphere (a space that is rapidly shifting from novelty to necessity). what  excites me is not just the technology itself, but its potential to reshape how we understand performance, recovery, and human capability.

    It feels important, in looking forward, to acknowledge the influence of Alice Wong, who passed away late last year. Her work showed how powerful it can be when personal perspective meets systems-level thinking and real action. This underpins how I want to engage with wearable technology: forward-looking, human-centred, and designed for lasting relevance rather than short-term hype. The future of wearables will belong to those who build with intention and that’s where I see myself contributing!

    Alice Wong (1974–2025) was an American disability rights activist, writer, community organiser and, in general, inspiring human being.

    She dedicated her work to confronting systemic ableism and amplifying disabled voices through storytelling and advocacy.

    Additionally, she wanted their a claim of being a MacArthur Fellow and a 2013 Obama appointee to the National Council on Disability, see you also founded the Disability Visibility Project in partnership with StoryCorps.