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Help Shape San Francisco’s Accessible Future

Help Shape San Francisco’s Accessible Future Alice Wong When I first moved to San Francisco over 25 years ago for grad school, I was excited yet intimidated. … Continue Reading Help Shape San Francisco’s Accessible Future

Graphic with an olive green background. An illustration of s.e. smith, a white person with curly brown hair streaked with silver wearing an orange sweater and a large purple scarf. Behind s.e.’s head, a spray of poppies, nasturtiums, and columbine in hues of orange, red, and yellow against a green background. (Illustration by Michaela Oteri)

Posted 4 days ago Guest Blog Posts

I’m Co-Founding a Feminist Media Collective: Here’s Why Disability Will Be All Over It from the Start

I’m Co-Founding a Feminist Media Collective: Here’s Why Disability Will Be All Over It from the Start s.e. smith Fifteen years ago, in October 2009, a mostly feminist … Continue Reading I’m Co-Founding a Feminist Media Collective: Here’s Why Disability Will Be All Over It from the Start

Graphic with a red background. Photo of Anna, a white nonbinary person with dark blond hair and glasses, smiling while sitting on a couch. They wear a black v-neck t-shirt and a floral print button down shirt.

Posted 2 weeks ago Guest Blog Posts

No, we don’t all have the same 24 hours in a day: On chronic pain and freelancing in an unreliable body

No, we don’t all have the same 24 hours in a day: On chronic pain and freelancing in an unreliable body Anna Hamilton One of the (supposedly) hot … Continue Reading No, we don’t all have the same 24 hours in a day: On chronic pain and freelancing in an unreliable body

Graphic with a beige background and delicate pink and purple flowers on the upper left and lower right corners. At the bottom in large print, THANK YOU! 3 photos from left to right: Alice, an Asian American disabled woman with a tracheostomy at her neck. She is smiling with her head tilted toward some bird of paradise plants, Leah, a mixed-race Sri Lankan and white nonbinary femme in their late 40s with teal curly hair, sand color skin and big metal glasses, looks contemplatively and with a slight smile at the viewer. Their hair matches the teal wall behind them, and their dark hot pink lipstick matches the hot pink velvet couch heaped with cushions behind them. They wear a black t shirt with the sleeves cut off and a gold hoop earring that reads “Burn It Down,” one double spiral tattoo is visible on their right shoulder (taken September 2024), and Jane, a person with pale-tan skin with her body away from the camera but her face smiling towards it. She’s wearing a blue jean jacket that reads “Nobody Loves You” in the back, embroidered in white calligraphy. Her hair is nearly shoulder-length with dark red highlights at the end and she’s wearing large round black-gray glasses. The background is a park during the day-time. Photo credit: Joy Gyamfi.

Posted 1 month ago Guest Blog Posts

Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note

Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note Today marks one year since the amplified Israeli genocide of Gaza began on October 7, 2023. … Continue Reading Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note

Graphic with a purple background. In the center is a photo of an Asian American woman in a wheelchair with a tracheostomy at her neck that has a tube connected to her ventilator. Her head is tilted to the left side, she is smiling, and she is wearing a magenta lip color. Her shirt is plaid with pale pink and other pastel colors and she is wearing pink pants. Behind her is a lot of greenery from bushes and trees at a park. Photo by @allisonbusch_photography

Posted 1 month ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Statement of Solidarity by Alice Wong: 2024 MacArthur Fellows Program

Hard to believe but I am a 2024 MacArthur Fellow! This has been a year with lots of highs and lows so receiving this was a surprise and it … Continue Reading Statement of Solidarity by Alice Wong: 2024 MacArthur Fellows Program

Graphic with a light blue background with a photo of a smiling non-binary white person with short curly brown hair wears black earring plugs and a bright blue button up shirt with colorful fern fronds printed on it.

Posted 2 months ago Guest Blog Posts

This Remembrance Day, Remember the Dead So We Can Fight for the Living

This Remembrance Day, Remember the Dead So We Can Fight for the Living Jess Whatcott The third Monday in September (September 16, 2024) is California Memorial Project Remembrance … Continue Reading This Remembrance Day, Remember the Dead So We Can Fight for the Living

Posted 2 months ago Guest articles

A Twitter controversy over Covid-19 led to a culture of distrust and suppression within ACT UP New York

A Twitter controversy over Covid-19 led to a culture of distrust and suppression within ACT UP New York Justine Barron The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power New … Continue Reading A Twitter controversy over Covid-19 led to a culture of distrust and suppression within ACT UP New York

Graphic with a black background and in the center is a black and white hand-drawn text in varied-style typography, both serif, italicized, bubbled, in the style of graffiti and street art. “Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, Do It Now. If it’s a handful, throw it, if it’s a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw it GET IN THE WAY however you can The Elimination of the Palestinian people is Not Inevitable. We can Refuse with our every breath and action. We must. Rasha Abdulhadi.”

Posted July 31, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

When the Poem is a Spreadsheet: Joining Crips for eSims for Gaza in #ConnectingGaza

When the Poem is a Spreadsheet: Joining Crips for eSims for Gaza in #ConnectingGaza Jane Shi FYI: Plain language version of “Crips for eSims for Gaza: A Donation Guide” … Continue Reading When the Poem is a Spreadsheet: Joining Crips for eSims for Gaza in #ConnectingGaza

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Posted July 18, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Disorderly, Dissenting, Disabled

Disorderly, Dissenting, Disabled Helen Rottier On Thursday, May 2, 2024, in response to widespread protests on college campuses across the US (and internationally), President Biden said, “Dissent must never … Continue Reading Disorderly, Dissenting, Disabled

A graphic with a dark blue background and in the center is a photo of Jessica Murray, a middle-aged white woman, with curly red hair and a determined look on her face.

Posted July 14, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Backing Out of Congestion Pricing Hurts New Yorkers with Disabilities the Most

Backing Out of Congestion Pricing Hurts New Yorkers with Disabilities the Most Jessica Murray In early June, Governor Kathy Hochul decided to pull out of a years-long plan … Continue Reading Backing Out of Congestion Pricing Hurts New Yorkers with Disabilities the Most

Posted July 1, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Disability Divest: We Demand the Disability Establishment End Its Relationships with War Profiteers

Disability Divest We Demand the Disability Establishment End Its Relationships with War Profiteers July 1, 2024 “Disability justice cannot exist under settler colonialism, military occupation, imprisonment, and apartheid. We … Continue Reading Disability Divest: We Demand the Disability Establishment End Its Relationships with War Profiteers

Posted June 30, 2024 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Palestine X Disability Justice Syllabus

One of my goals an editor, writer, and activist is to speak out about the genocide carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces against the people of Gaza. I remember … Continue Reading Palestine X Disability Justice Syllabus

Screenshot of an announcement in Publisher’s Marketplace on May 31, 2024, “Activist and editor of DISABILITY VISIBILITY and DISABILITY INTIMACY Alice Wong, ed.'s DISABILITY VULNERABILITY, an anthology of writing that explores the precarity of life in the disabled community, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing fallout, again to Anna Kaufman at Vintage, for publication in spring 2026, by Julia Kardon at HG Literary (world English). Rights: foreign@hgliterary.com”

Posted June 12, 2024 DVP News and Events

Coming soon: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” — Michael Corleone, played by Al Pacino, in the film The Godfather: Part III It’s official! I signed a … Continue Reading Coming soon: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

Posted June 6, 2024 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Healing Is Not Linear

Healing Is Not Linear It’s hard to believe but exactly two years ago on June 6, 2022, I had a series of medical crises that led to several weeks … Continue Reading Healing Is Not Linear

Graphic showing slices of watermelons and watermelon seeds. In the center in Korean hangul script reads: Crips for eSims for Gaza

Posted June 1, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

가자에 e심을 보내는 장애인 모임(Crips for eSims for Gaza)

가자에 e심을 보내는 장애인 모임 (Crips for eSims for Gaza) e심 구매 및 전송을 위한 모금 링크입니다: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza 세계 각지의 장애인 및 퀴어 디아스포라 아시아계 장애인으로서, 우리는 팔레스타인 … Continue Reading 가자에 e심을 보내는 장애인 모임(Crips for eSims for Gaza)

Graphic with a black background in the center is a photo of two people, facing to the left of the camera, are holding a black sign with white writing that says “Keep masks in healthcare”. In front of them is a crowd of people also faced to the left of the camera, at the corner of San Francisco's column enshrined City Hall.

Posted June 1, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Masking in healthcare is basic infection control. Why must vulnerable San Franciscans keep begging providers to take life-saving protections?

Masking in healthcare is basic infection control. Why must vulnerable San Franciscans keep begging providers to take life-saving protections? Jillian Crochet and Britta Shoot We all know it … Continue Reading Masking in healthcare is basic infection control. Why must vulnerable San Franciscans keep begging providers to take life-saving protections?