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Photo with a purple-pink reflective background featuring a gold dipper spoon from @umeshiso_ (on IG). On the left are gold ginkgo leaf decorations, a small rainbow, and below are two clear crystals. Photo credit: @ziru.mo (on IG). Right: Photo with a purple-pink background with a copy of Year of the Tiger paperback in the center. Above and below the book are a pair of rainbow chopsticks from @umeshiso_ (on IG). On the right of the book is a tiger bookmark and is one round tiger sticker and one round tiger button. Floral decorations and a small rainbow decor are placed around the edges. Photo credit: @ziru.mo (on IG)

Year of the Tiger x Umeshio collab

I love shiny things, especially the rainbow and gold spoons and chopsticks from Umeshio.com, a nonbinary disabled gaysian owned-business created by Umeko Motoyoshi. We are teaming up and offering … Continue Reading Year of the Tiger x Umeshio collab

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 months 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 3 months 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 August 24, 2022 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 August 21, 2022 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 August 14, 2022 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 August 7, 2022 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

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 May 13, 2022 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

May 2022 Philips Recall Summary

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 … Continue Reading May 2022 Philips Recall Summary

Graphic with a dark blue background with a screenshot from Publisher's Marketplace with the following announcement on April 13, 2022 under the non-fiction/anthology category: Editor of DISABILITY VISIBILITY and author of the forthcoming memoir YEAR OF THE TIGER Alice Wong ed.'s DISABILITY INTIMACY, an anthology of writing that dives into the rich and varied intimate relationships of people in the disabled community to Anna Kaufman at Vintage, by Julia Kardon at HG Literary (world English).

Posted April 15, 2022 DVP News and Events

DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

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 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 January 9, 2022 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