Emylle on Wheels – Web Comic – Episode 5

Published by Milene Correia and Emylle Torres at August 7, 2025

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First panel of the comic Emylle on Wheels - from Milene Correia

Emylle on Wheels - comic about disability in an ableist world — Emylle on Wheels webcomic provided by Milene Correia

Panel 1: Emylle, our heroine, is a girl who uses a wheelchair and is wearing a blue-and-white-striped bodysuit and a yellow helmet with dinosaur spikes on it. Light-heartedly, she says, “You’re thinking, ‘Hey, why the helmet?’ Right?”

Panel 2: She goes on to explain by saying, “It’s just that the ramp in the corner is a bit too steep. Dangerous! Anyways!”

Panel 3: Zooming down a steep ramp at full speed, Emylle shouts, “Wish me luck!”

Need more? Enjoy these other Emylle on Wheels episodes, and other stories, readings, and fun at the MockingOwl Roost.

Milene Correia

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Brazilian multidisciplinary artist. Major in English Language and Literature, taking a specialization course in Teaching of Drama. I write, rewrite, draw and compose and expose because my heart can’t fit all these feelings. Leo, Queer, 92.Follow Milene on Instagram for more.

Emylle Torres

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Emylle Torres Aguiar, is 22 and born in Fortaleza, Brazil. She finished a Tourism Course (2017), and is currently studying Spanish. She is a medalist and paralympic athlete of Boccia at a project called Esporte Sem Limites ("sport with no limits"), thought by the Associação D’Eficiência Superando Limites – (ADESUL). "Emylle On Wheels" is a webcomics work inspired by her life as a person with a disability. Through this work she’s become a character of the book series "Liz e seus Amigos" (Liz and the gang), a project by Associação Cearense de Beisebol and Daniel Brandão, a Brazilian comics artist.