Alice Wong, author portrait
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Alice Wong

Alice Wong was a disabled activist, writer, and editor based in San Francisco, California. She was the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. From 2013 to 2015, Alice served as a member of the National Council on Disability, an appointment by President Barack Obama. She died in 2025. For more: disabilityvisibilityproject.com
Year of the Tiger
Disability Visibility

Books

Year of the Tiger
Disability Visibility

DISABILITY VISIBILITY is an urgent collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.

Activist Alice Wong presents a galvanizing collection of thirty-seven essays by disabled people just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her

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