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This is a graphic illustration by Haley Brown with a bright cobalt blue background. There are black lungs filled with dark gray puffy clouds. In the left lung is a yellow canary bird with a red eye in a mid-flight attack pose. In the right lung there is a red circle. Around the lungs there is clear white tubing that is entwined. Above this graphic the white text reads: #SuckYouPhilips

Posted 1 week ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Update on Philips CPAP, BiPAP, and Ventilator Recall

In the summer of 2021, Philips Respironics issued a recall notification of a number of their CPAP, BiPap, and ventilators in the United States. A group of disabled people impacted … Continue Reading Update on Philips CPAP, BiPAP, and Ventilator Recall

Graphic with a pale blue background with an illustration of a megaphone in black on the left side. On the right, black text: High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus, 2020-21, DisabilityVisibilityProject.com

Posted 2 weeks ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus

Since March 2020 I have been collecting strands of disabled wisdom about the pandemic and trying to gather, weave, and share them. Disabled, fat, older, poor, immunocompromised, and chronically ill … Continue Reading High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus

Graphic in red with starburst designs on the left and right. In the center in large sized text: 2021, below in smaller sized font in white: Disability Visibility Project Year in Review

Posted 2 weeks ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

DVP: 2021 Year in Review

Happy New Year! Better late than never, am I right? 2021 was SOME year. Too many expletives cannot adequately express my frustration and concern right now. I hope you are … Continue Reading DVP: 2021 Year in Review

Petra and Neil are sitting side-by-side in their wheelchairs in or just outside a building in Honolulu. Petra, a smiling woman with short hair and glasses, is wearing a bright yellow top and wearing a lei as she gazes at Neil, to her left. Neil, a man with short hair and a beard, both dark with some gray mixed in, is wearing a white shirt and a lei, and gazing mischievously toward Petra. Courtesy of Petra Kuppers.

Posted 2 weeks ago Guest Blog Posts

Reading Storms, Embracing Life: A Remembrance of Neil Marcus

Reading Storms, Embracing Life: A Remembrance of Neil Marcus Steven E. Brown “I’m a human bridge in a moment of time, spanning as far and as relevant as … Continue Reading Reading Storms, Embracing Life: A Remembrance of Neil Marcus

[left] Book jacket designed by Angela Carlino of DISABILITY VISIBILITY: 17 First-Person Stories for Today adapted for young readers edited by Alice Wong. The cover has thin vertical gray lines with overlapping geometric shapes in green, blue, magenta, yellow and purple. [right] Photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman with a mask over her nose attached to a tube for her ventilator. She is in a power wheelchair and wearing a gray sweatshirt with a tiger and leopard-print red and black pants. Behind her are bamboo trees. Credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography

Posted October 26, 2021 DVP News and Events

Disability Visibility anthology for young readers

I’m delighted to share my new anthology adapted for young readers, DISABILITY VISIBILITY: 17 First-Person Stories for Today, available now from Delacorte Press. This book has 17 edited pieces from … Continue Reading Disability Visibility anthology for young readers

Screenshot from a piece from Publisher's Weekly. On the left is a photo of Alice Wong, wearing a gray sweatshirt with a tiger, she has a mask over her nose attached to a tube. She is in a wheelchair and wearing bright red lipstick. Behind her are bamboo trees. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography. On the right, text: Wong Memoir Goes to Vintage, Activist and consultant Alice Wong sold a memoir, Year of the Tiger, to Anna Kaufman at Vintage in a world English rights agreement. Vintage said the book is a “mosaic memoir” that charts the author’s life and work as an activist through an array of visual and prose forms, including photos, essays, artwork, and horoscopes. Wong, who founded the Disability Visibility Project (an online forum that aims to amplify the voices of those in the disabled community), also edited the anthology Disability Visibility, which Vintage published last year. She was represented by Julia Kardon at HG Literary. Year of the Tiger is slated for 2022.

Posted February 16, 2021 DVP News and Events

Year of the Tiger: New book in 2022!

I am delighted to share that I will be coming out with a new book next year, Year of the Tiger, published by Vintage Books. The title refers to the … Continue Reading Year of the Tiger: New book in 2022!