Alice Wong
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in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States
January 01, 1974
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
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2020
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Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
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2022
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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
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2024
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Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today
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Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy
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2020
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 24 September/October 2018: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue
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2018
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Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
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2018
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Disabled Voices
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2020
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The Deaf Poets Society, Issue 4: May 2017
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“People ask me, “Have you tried yoga? Kombucha? This special water?” And I don’t have the energy to explain that yes, I’ve tried them. I’ve tried crystals and healing drum circles and prayer and everything. What I want to try is acceptance. I want to see what happens if I can simply accept myself for who I am: battered, broken, hoping for relief, still enduring somehow. I will still take a cure if it’s presented to me, but I am so tired of trying to bargain with the universe for some kind of cure. The price is simply too high to live chasing cures, because in doing so, I’m missing living my life. I know only that in chasing to achieve the person I once was, I will miss the person I have become.”
― Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
― Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
“What worries me most about the proposals for legalized assisted suicide is their veneer of beneficence—the medical determination that for a given individual, suicide is reasonable or right. It is not about autonomy but about nondisabled people telling us what’s good for us. In the discussion that follows, I argue that choice is illusory in a context of pervasive inequality. Choices are structured by oppression. We shouldn’t offer assistance with suicide until we all have the assistance we need to get out of bed in the morning and live a good life. Common causes of suicidality—dependence, institutional confinement, being a burden—are entirely curable.”
― Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
― Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
“There is so much that able-bodied people could learn from the wisdom that often comes with disability. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out. People need to be lifted up.
The story of disabled success has never been a story about one solitary disabled person overcoming limitations—despite the fact that’s the narrative we so often read in the media. The narrative trajectory of a disabled person’s life is necessarily webbed. We are often only as strong as our friends and family make us, only as strong as our community, only as strong as the resources and privileges we have.”
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
The story of disabled success has never been a story about one solitary disabled person overcoming limitations—despite the fact that’s the narrative we so often read in the media. The narrative trajectory of a disabled person’s life is necessarily webbed. We are often only as strong as our friends and family make us, only as strong as our community, only as strong as the resources and privileges we have.”
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
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