"I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you ... as a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more"
"One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there,"
"But part of my rage - and it's a very real rage - is that most people don't really know about them."
Alice Wong was a San Francisco–based disability rights activist who combined wit, creativity and strategic provocation to push for disability justice. She founded the Disability Visibility Project to amplify disabled writers and artists and edited anthologies, wrote a memoir, hosted a podcast, and authored essays. She launched #CriptheVote to hold candidates accountable and helped prioritize COVID vaccine access for high-risk Californians. Appointed to the National Council on Disability in 2013, she attended a White House event via telepresence robot and challenged policies that harmed disabled people. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2024 and died at 51.
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