#Alice Wong

[sainte666]

Disability Divest: We Demand the Disability Establishment End Its Relationships with War Profiteers (July 1, 2024)

Hi friends and comrades,

This Disability Pride Month, please read and sign onto this letter to the disability establishment to divest and end its partnership with war profiteers and complicity with genocide and colonialism.

Some of us are affiliated with organizations in the US disability advocacy space, and some of us are not.

Many disability organizations and their leaders have been silent about the mass disabling event and genocide that has been happening since last October. Silence is complicity.

Several US disability rights organizations, which advocate for equal rights and treatment for disabled Americans, accept funding and have fostered partnerships with major war profiteers and weapons manufacturers including Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen, Boeing, RTX/Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, General Motors, and Google.

Disability rights organizations go even further than accepting money from war profiteers: they honor them with disability inclusion awards.

One example is the 2023 Disability Equality Index, presented by Disability:IN, awarded HP, Siemens, Barclays, Chevron, Intel, and 11 weapons manufacturing companies with the top score 100 of “Best Places to Work.” (All 16 companies are corporate partners with Disability:IN.)

Disability:IN is certainly not the only one doing this in the US disability establishment, and we see similar patterns with other national orgs as well. They take money from these war mongers and turn around and pay lip service to the idea of liberation and disability rights.

Read the full letter and sign: DisabilityDivest.org. All you need is a first and last name and an email address. The letter is being translated into ASL and a Plain Language version, which will be available at the top of the page once ready.

Please feel free to contact me @sainte666 if you have any questions.

We MUST do better as a community and work to stop genocide and mass disabling events.

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“This may feel true for every era, but I believe I am living in a time where disabled people are more visible than ever before. And yet while representation is exciting and important, it is not enough. I want and expect more. We all should expect more. We all deserve more. There must be depth, range, nuance to disability representation in media. This is the current challenge and opportunity for the publishing industry and popular culture at large.”

—Alice Wong, from her Introduction to “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century”

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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, a nd Desire

Edited by Alice Wong.

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If we love fiercely, our ancestors live among and speak to us through these incandescent filaments glowing from the warmth of memories. Loving fiercely is real-time legacy building. Maybe that’s the best way to honor people.

Alice Wong, “Ancestors and Legacies” from Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life

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Book

Wong, A. (2020). Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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This is “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century,” published in 2020, and edited by Alice Wong, a disabled activist, writer, editor, and the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project. A table of contents organizes the various essays into four main parts, and information about the contributors as well as further reading can be found at the end. This book is a collection of essays from all across the array of disabled people, providing a glimpse into the lived reality of all sorts of disabilities. This book is a beautiful way for nondisabled people to learn more about the lived reality of disability, but it is also a heartwarming and provocative display of disability justice for people who already are disabled. If you’re unsure of what a disability justice politic may look like, or are curious about the state of the world for your fellow disabled humans, I would highly recommend this book. I think a baseline foundational level of knowledge on disability studies may help, but this book can be enjoyed by anyone.

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Alice Wong (Big Mouth)

[Image Description: From the official show. Alice, a light-skinned Asian woman with brown eyes, sits in a motorized wheelchair. Her hair is black and long on top with the sides shaved. She is wearing an oxygen mask around her nose and smiling. She is wearing a blue shirt and red sweatpants with black shoes. She is in a room with a bookshelf in the background. Offscreen, a black hand holds a glass of red wine. End ID.]

Alice has spinal muscular atrophy and uses a wheelchair.

✨Alice is voiced by a disabled actor!✨

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Portrait of Alice Wong by Georgia Webber

Contemporary Calgary, Mohkinstis, Canada

As part of the exhibition “Resistance & Respiration”

January 2024

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🚨 Call to action against the eugenics and oppression Disabled people continue to face. 🚨

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Please email UCSF Health to demand mask PPE requirements in healthcare.

This is the reality Disabled people have been facing during this now 4 year battle with COVID. Masks work. COVID never ended.

It is eugenics. We are being killed off. And no one seems to care. We can't do this alone.

More info and email address in the link.

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Book haul but it's presents from my last birthday 🎂

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"Anyone can become disabled at any time. We are people just like everyone else.

The time needs to be over for people to be sent to institutions because there aren't options in the community or because people think it's cheaper or more protected.

It wastes people's lives and, in the long run, keeps them from contributing.

There's no such thing as a good institution."

- Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong: We can't go back by Ricardo T. Thornton Sr.

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Daily Book - Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Disability Visibility ed. Alice Wong Adult Health / Identity, 2020, 309 pg personal essays by disabled / neurodiverse authors, including an asexual female author, poc authors, etc One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.

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The amazing Alice Wong follows SpoonieStrong on Twitter (I used to post a lot). 💙🥄

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May we all receive the help we need to make our lives a little more bearable.

Alice Wong, “How I Spend My Caturdays (and Nights) at Home” from Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life

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Our next book club meeting is April 13 at 7:30pm Eastern and we will be discussing the first half of Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong.

We meet online at https://meet.jit.si/ReadingQueerly

Whether you read the book, didn't finish the book, or didn't start the book, our meetings are open to everyone interested in a laid back discussion about themes, opinions, and personal experiences in relation to the books we read. We try our best to create a comfortable, safe space for queer community, and if you have any questions or comments we would love to hear from you. Hope to see you there!