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Graphic with a gray background. From left to right: Digital collage that includes Black and white photo portraits of three people staring pensively at the camera, an Afro-Latina person with medium length curly hair swept to one side of her shoulders, An Asian person smiling, she is wearing a trach at her neck and wearing a crew neck blouse. She is sitting in her power wheelchair. An Iranian person with short, dark curly hair and circular. They wear a black shirt while their hand rests on their chin. Around each persons head rests an illustrated cream colored circle crown on a purple background. Artist credit: Jen White-Johnson

Posted 3 weeks ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Society of Disabled Oracles

Hello everyone! I wrote about disabled oracles in the past such as a talk I gave on August 6, 2020, “The Last Disabled Oracle,” as part of Assembly for … Continue Reading Society of Disabled Oracles

Graphic with a black background with a photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman in a power chair. Behind her is a gray concrete wall. She is wearing a bold red lip color and an orange and black tiger striped sweater. A trach and ventilator tube is at her neck and shoulder. She is serving all the looks and giving a cheeky crooked smile. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography.

Posted 4 weeks ago DVP News and Events

Year of the Tiger: Debut memoir by Alice Wong

Friends, the time is meow. Today my debut memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life, is available in paperback, audiobook, and e-book. It’s been a hell of a summer … Continue Reading Year of the Tiger: Debut memoir by Alice Wong

Graphic with a white background featuring an illustrated portrait of Alice Wong and Ashanti Fortson by Ashanti, with a purple, pink, mauve, and blue color palette. Wong is an Asian American woman wearing a dark blue jacket and a pink-and-lavender chevron-patterned scarf, as well as a mask over her nose with a tube for her Bi-Pap machine. Fortson is an Afro-Mexican person wearing light yellow star earrings, large and round pink glasses, and a dark blue knit shawl with accents in bright pink. Clouds swirl in front of the figures, and stars are visible in the night sky behind them. Shooting stars with bright pink trails are scattered throughout the portrait. Near the bottom of the image, embellished text reads “Alice and Ashanti,” and the text “#CommunityAsHome” is underneath.

Posted 1 month ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Community As Home – Portraits

In 2020 artist Ashanti Fortson and Alice Wong collaborated in a project called Community As Home featuring a series digital portraits centered on the joy, culture, and love of disabled people and … Continue Reading Community As Home – Portraits

Graphic with a red background with a photo in the center of Sandy Ho in 5th or 6th grade. She has dark curly hair, is wearing a white sweater, and a blue and white flower collar. She is smiling at the camera.

Posted 1 month ago Guest Blog Posts

Release the Red Panda

Release the Red Panda Sandy Ho Note: spoilers for the Pixar film Turning Red “Hi – Dr. Shapiro, it’s Sandy. I’m calling because my parents want me … Continue Reading Release the Red Panda

Graphic with a lavender background showing a photo of Emet’s funeral program. On the cover is a picture of Emet wearing a white and gray polka dotted collared button up shirt, with a gray bow tie. He has curly turquoise hair. He has a mustache and a nose piercing and is sitting in a power chair, smiling. Below it says Rabbi Emet Faye Tauber, August 30, 1994-March 25, 2019. In the background there are zebra stripes, rainbow pride flags, and trans pride flags.

Posted 2 months ago Guest Blog Posts

Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle

Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle A different world is possible Noah Strauss There was always a journalist, Joshua Bright, in the room with us in those dying days, in … Continue Reading Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle

Graphic with a dark blue background. In the center is a photo of me in a hospital gown with tubes attached to my arms and face. Multiple pillows are underneath my arms and head. My hands are clasped together in the middle of my body. I have a serious look on my face.

Posted 2 months ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay

My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay Alice Wong Content notes: medical trauma, hospitalization, blood, systemic ableism, death, anxiety This is a semi-accurate account of what happened to … Continue Reading My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay

A young, white disabled woman with long dark hair, standing outside and looking off to the side, wearing light blue sunglasses and a white t-shirt with a small black walking stick design and a black sleeveless jumpsuit over the shirt.

Posted 2 months ago Guest Blog Posts

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology Mary Frances Layden Sometimes a cocktail just takes the edge off. During lockdown, in the early days of … Continue Reading Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

Graphic with a red background with a photo of Noah, a white trans masc non-binary person with short brown hair, smiles at the camera while holding a milkshake. They are wearing a short sleeved green shirt with red, orange, and pink flower pattern on it.

Posted 3 months ago Guest Blog Posts

On Madness

On Madness Noah Strauss Content notes: institutionalization, generational trauma The deep is always close by, in our peripheral vision. Mind the corners. To know what you’re experiencing … Continue Reading On Madness

Graphic with a teal background featuring a photo of Ingrid, a middle-aged White woman with a long gray/brown ponytail who is wearing a bright blue dress and a colorful cloth face-mask. She's sitting in her wheelchair outdoors, next to a fuschia orchid. Photo credit: Christopher Egusa.

Posted May 24, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future

Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future Ingrid Tischer Reasons, I’ve got a few. But this still-current guidance from the CDC … Continue Reading Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future

A double exposure photograph, wherein two images are faded onto one another in a single image, of Jane sitting at her desk on a black office chair. Jane is a light skin East Asian person, with her eyes closed, wearing brown and black glasses and short black hair that slightly flares at the end with rounded bangs like a bowl. In one exposure Jane’s face is larger and closer to the camera; there are lights directly behind her. In the other, she is sitting on a black office chair and holding a sliced open half of a pomegranate. Behind her is a round, moon-like light. The desk behind her is a medium orange-brown and contains a head shelf, with books ordered in red, black, white, and the rest of the rainbow ordered on the top of the table. There’s a small brown monkey plushie near the left end of the desk. There’s a black and white ink illustration above the orange to blue books on top of the desk where there’s an open space.

Posted May 21, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

The cat is out of the bag! My follow-up anthology to DISABILITY VISIBILITY will be DISABILITY INTIMACY, a collection of writing about the relationships, communities, and intimacies of disabled people, … Continue Reading DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

Graphic with a black background featuring a photo of Thomas Reid, a brown skin Black man with a clean-shaven bald head and full neat beard, smiles into the camera. He wears dark shades and a black and white checkered button up shirt.

Posted April 12, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy Thomas Reid When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the world changed … Continue Reading Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Graphic with a teal background featuring a photo is of Anna, a white nonbinary person with shoulder-length blond hair, standing in front of a beige wall. They wear a muted orange shirt.

Posted April 10, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore: It feels like I am seeing a guy stick his head into an alligator’s mouth … Continue Reading Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Disability Visibility Project

Society of Disabled Oracles

Year of the Tiger: Debut memoir by Alice Wong

Community As Home – Portraits

Release the Red Panda

Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle

My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay

May 2022 Philips Recall Summary

DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

Society of Disabled Oracles

Year of the Tiger: Debut memoir by Alice Wong

Community As Home – Portraits

Release the Red Panda

Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle

My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

On Madness

Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future

What Will Never Be Again

My MS and Me

May 2022 Philips Recall Summary

Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine

DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore