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Alice Wong 王美華
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Disabled oracle. Founder, . Author of debut memoir, YEAR OF THE TIGER, available now! bit.ly/3IVc9Aj
San Francisco, CAlinktr.ee/disability_vis…Joined April 2012

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Disability innovation & creativity for the win!
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Percussionist Kyungho Jeon, who was born blind, used to think his dream of playing in an orchestra was impossible. So he helped create a new type of baton that lets him feel, rather than see, a conductor's movements - and now he can play with an ensemble: cnn.it/2YPYZjj
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THE 👏 ADA 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 SOME 👏 LOGO 👏 YOU 👏 CAN 👏 SLAP 👏 ON 👏 THAT'S 👏 NOT 👏 HOW 👏 DISABILITY 👏 RIGHTS 👏 WORK #ADA #ADA30 #CripTheVote
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Conservative Omaha Mom group is making these to avoid wearing masks where required. To put the ADA logo on a homemade lie in the midst of a pandemic is reprehensible. Selfies while wearing these w/ captions like "running to the store 😷❌🤣" is shameful #Omaha #WearADamnMask
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Home! 4 weeks in the ICU and I am now home. Now even more hard work begins. Send me all the good witchy vibes Image description: hospital room with a bunch of monitors and cords. An empty hospital bed has a gown & pillows
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This is what exploitation & racism looks like 👇👇👇 Calling folks angels & heroes is a way to avoid the systemic oppression that creates these situations
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This is what angels look like! These 2 health care aides were asked to work at Lakeland nursing home in Wanaque, NJ. And so they did except they claim no one warned them 8 patients had died from #covid_19 and that the virus was rampant here. 1/2 @ABC7NY
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📣My debut memoir #YearOfTheTiger is available MEOW!  🐅📖💻 Online events, plain language summary (coming soon) and more: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/tiger/ 📝 Free discussion guide by    disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/upl 🎧 Official book playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/2vN44
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, blue cardigan and black puffy pants. A trach and ventilator tube is at her neck and shoulder. She is holding a copy of her memoir, YEAR OF THE TIGER, a yellow book cover with a fierce tiger and red flowers with the text after the title, An Activist’s Life, Alice Wong, Editor of Disability Visibility. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography.
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So many people don’t have a dentist, can’t afford regular cleanings, and/or have chronic illnesses or poor nutrition that makes dental care even more important The healthcare system is fucked
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I lost my patient this morning and damn, I felt it. It could have been avoided, please if you have a cavity in your teeth. See your dentist. It can kill. Please.
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📢 Your girl is now a columnist for ! My first piece is about the #Medicaid unwinding process starting 4/1 when states will resume annual redetermination processes for all enrollees which could result in millions losing their coverage #CripTheVote #SaveMedicaid
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"When the odds seem overwhelmingly stacked against us, I recall the phrase, “They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.” We will rise again." Read the full story from @SFdirewolf ⬇️ tnvge.co/bk2Gsqp
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Hot. Crispy. Salty. Oily. I miss being able to eat solid foods but today my dad made me a green egg pancake, one of my favorites, and I will carefully taste & spit it out. I just need to make sure no bits go down my throat This is bringing me joy today
A white square plate with a golden green onion egg pancake with crispy edges that look like lace
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I have questions👇 - This child is clearly in distress. Why is this being used as a form of #InspirationPorn for viewers because of her bravery? - People post about their medical procedures but did she consent to this? - Who is centered in the consumption & gaze of this video?
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This little girl who was born without eyes sings to calm her fears in the hospital
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The child in question is DISABLED "The wheelchair Williams used was secured toward the back of the bus while Davila sat toward the front, using a cellphone while wearing earbuds in both ears — a violation of policies and procedures, McDonald’s investigation found." #CripTheVote
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A New Jersey bus monitor charged in the death of a 6-year-old girl who suffocated while being taken to school was on her phone, earbuds in both ears, and didn’t notice while the child “struggled violently for her life,” according to a report. gothamist.com/news/nj-bus-mo
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Journalists writing about the future & current state of remote work need to remember that disabled & chronically ill people have fought for YEARS for this as an accommodation. At the very least interview disabled people who can provide crucial context. #CripTheVote #ADA #ADA31
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Ventured out yesterday for the first time since mid-March to get a drive thru flu shot. Wore a face shield, stayed in the car the whole time, & no line 🚙💉🏥 Not bad, ! Rewarded myself w/ french fries & a chocolate milkshake. Fries are life. That is all 🍟💯🤩
Left: Asian American woman in a wheelchair with a mask over her nose with a tube attached to a ventilator. She is wearing a plastic face shield, a red hoodie, blue scarf, and black pants. Right: Asian American woman in a wheelchair wearing a red hoodie, blue scarf, and black pants. She is holding a small box of crinkle-cut french fries and has a look of pure joy & glee
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Gonna shoot my shot. Since May is #APAHM month, I would like to co-organize an online screening of #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce for folks who cannot watch in theaters due to the pandemic & accessibility Hey hit me up! DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com
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Similar Q: are there any online screenings of #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce for high risk folks who cannot go to theatres anytime soon because THE PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER yet? Especially for high risk, disabled, older Asian folks? 😷🌭⏰ cc: @Daniels #EverythingEverywhere twitter.com/whatchidid/sta…
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Huhhhhh, remote internships. Who could have thought of this (for years before a pandemic)? 🤔🤔🤔 *** Disabled people ***
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We are thrilled to announce that our fall internship program will be fully remote! We are seeking diverse 2020/2021 grads who are interested in a career in book publishing. Lots of additional information to come – opportunities will be posted on July 6! harpercollins.jobs
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It’s me! My dream of being a voice actor for an animated series came true. I play Alice, a character loosely based on me in season 2, available 6/9 This is especially meaningful to me since I lost my ability to speak last year. Thank you & the whole team
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10 more reasons to stream HR season 2 this Friday? We got ’em right here: Eugene Levy, Miley Cyrus, Niecy Nash, Florence Pugh, Sam Richardson, Isabella Rossellini, Jon Lovitz, Alice Wong, Jackée Harry, and Jason Mantzoukas.
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To all the disabled people who have been telling their stories & performing shitloads of free labor & education: I see you! #SuckItAbleism 🥤🥤🥤 My current mood on the #StrawBan & the way non-disabled people have been interrogating & doubting disabled people online. 👇👇👇
Asian American woman wearing a black jacket, wearing a BiPap mask over her nose, and holding a paper coffee cup with a straw at her mouth. On the right an illustration of a cup in black with a bendable straw. “Shove your performative environmental wokeness in a cup and suck on it with a straw. #SuckItAbleism #StrawBan @SFdirewolf”
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I hope mountain lions find the rich hella tasty
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Wealthy Silicon Valley suburb Woodside — median household income $250k — declares the entire town "mountain lion habitat" in an attempt to sidestep a new state law allowing duplexes on single-family home lots almanacnews.com/news/2022/02/0
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“What is so harmful about seeing what's happened to John Fetterman is that he's actually experiencing what many disabled people experience every day when we ask for accommodations...which is an instant doubt of our competence" - #AccessIsARight #CripTheVote
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Spoke to disability advocates about that Fetterman interview. They’re not happy. buzzfeednews.com/article/davidm
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“Only 55 people attended the Aug. 7 reception at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket...Over the next 38 days, the virus spread to 176 other people. Seven of them died. None of the victims who lost their lives had attended the party.”
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Tech is never neutral 👇 “... the tools are an unacceptable invasion of privacy and are destined to cause institutional discrimination against students who are marginalized, low-income, neurodiverse, or don’t otherwise fit the software developers’ definition of normal.”
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One man says he lost his savings after being sued by Proctorio, whose software tracks physical movements to detect “abnormal” behavior during exams. bit.ly/2FN6cKG
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TODAY my book baby is leaving the nest and officially out in the world!!
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📣 📣📣 Available NOW!  #DisabilityVisibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century  Edited by @Sfdirewolf 📖📱 🎧 Paperback, e-book, and audiobook: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617802/d
[Graphic with a background of overlapping triangles in bright colors with text: Available now! In the middle is an image of a book titled ‘Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century Edited by Alice Wong’ the book cover has overlapping triangles in a variety of bright colors with black text overlaying them and an off-white background. Book cover by Madeline Partner.]
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My high risk 76 year old dad vaccinated last week My high risk 71 year old mom vaccinated today Me, a high risk disabled person under 65, no longer prioritized by along with so many others Take action if you are as pissed as me & follow #HighRiskCA
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It’s 10 pm Pacific & there are a million other things I need to do right now but I feel like stirring up a hornets nest at what has done. For every group no longer a priority on the tier system, share your story with the tag #HighRiskCA
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I had a professor pet me on the head once IN CLASS and a ‘well-meaning’ lady brush the hair out of my eyes in an elevator UNASKED and without consent. If y’all need any more examples of everyday ableism, this is it 👇👇👇 #SuckItAbleism
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Check out @JoeBiden on #inclusive #education. Thanks for sharing this video with us, Samuel. Let us know if other candidates are talking about these critical issues. #CripTheVote #PwDsVote #RevUp #VoteDisability #RespectAbility #NHPolitics
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“To avoid the marriage penalties faced by couples in which one partner is disabled, the union was ceremonial rather than legal. This shielded Ms. Torasso from future financial responsibility and allowed Mr. Carbone to retain the disability benefits he needed to afford care.”
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“It is, I think, a sad reflection of our times, that accessibility is still not part of what is top of mind for developers. We've had web accessibility guidelines and standards for 20 years,”
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Blind Americans face roadblocks booking online vaccine appointments yhoo.it/30Vm1Gl
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FYI, during my recovery, I’ve entrusted Sandy Ho (@ NotYourAvgHo101) to take the lead on events related to my memoir Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life. These plans will be managed by Sandy and my editor/publishing team. 📖 🐅 #YearOfTheTiger
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The delights of being disabled: I found out the BiPap machine I use at night and day (both models) are RECALLED (US only). Due to disintegrating foam inside!! That people...who need respiratory support...are breathing in. 🌬 FUCK. ME. 😱
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Judith Heumann is now a disabled ancestor Here’s an interview w/ Judy for my podcast on mentorship disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2018/10/07/ep- And Judy interviewed me for her podcast The Heumann Perspective youtu.be/MopiXOeIUHM #DisabilityTwitter #CripTheVote #DisabilityRights
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We will miss you, Judy. Rest in Power. Photo credit: HolLynn D'Lil
Black and white photo of a young Judy Heumann speaking at a microphone outside in her wheelchair, wearing a "Sign 504" button.
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How about you transport wheelchairs safely & not penalize & discriminate your disabled customers ? ✈️♿️ "She told me that the airline had implemented this new policy because they were damaging a large number of power wheelchairs loading them onto regional aircraft,"
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I am outraged to hear that @AmericanAir has created a new policy banning people using power wheelchairs from flying. This is straight up discrimination. npr.org/2020/11/02/929
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Hey, ! How about offering both types of straws? I still need a plastic straw w/ your new lids because I cannot lift a drink (see profile pic). Your whole menu is about customization & options. 1 venti accessibility w/ a shot of customer service please! #StrawBan
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We're removing plastic straws in our stores globally by 2020—reducing more than 1 billion plastic straws per year from our stores.
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Oh , do you realize how much preparation sick, chronically ill and disabled people do before going out to eat? Looking at menus is an access issue. As someone has difficulty swallowing, I look for menus that has a range of textures so I can actually enjoy my time out
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Stop looking at restaurant menus ahead of time eater.com/2019/9/24/2087
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I am also intensely uncomfortable at the need to defend our humanity and worth. Too much of my life has been centered on nondisabled expectations. And yet, this is where we are. #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy #HighRiskCOVID19 #NEISvoid #DisabilityTwitter #CripTheVote #LongCOVID
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The fact that #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy even has to be a hashtag is SAD! It’s absolutely unfair to each and everyone of us to hear that our lives are disposable. And everyone of you ableds that refuses to do the right thing for the entire population should be ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES.
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“Abled supremacy means that many of you mistakenly think that if you do get COVID and if you end up with long COVID, that the state will take care of you…You believe this because you do not know about the lived reality of disability in this country.” -
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A must-read about the pandemic, ableism, and disability justice by Mia Mingus: “You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence”  leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you #HighRiskCOVID19 #NEISvoid #DisabilityTwitter #CripTheVote #NoBodyIsDisposable #LongCOVID
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Got a "you're very brave" from my first appointment with a cardiologist today. Brave for existing. I actually told her she was being condescending and she appreciated the feedback. A 5-minute medical history is not an accurate depiction of my quality of life.
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🔮In the future there will be more... Disabled pollsters Disabled pundits Disabled Cabinet members Disabled White House staff Disabled candidates & politicians Disabled activists, organizers, scholars Disabled volunteers & trouble makers #CripTheVote
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Disabled folks need to be taken seriously in elections, we are hardly represented in polling. We could have more accurate election polling, if Disabled folks are included. #CripTheVote
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Tapping my fingers impatiently until is available online since things are hella unsafe for high risk folks like me but it is what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️ Impossible to avoid spoilers & I will still enjoy it but it’s a second-tier audience experience by studio’s design #ShangChi
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Be a part of history TONIGHT and experience Marvel Studios' #ShangChi and The Legend of The Ten Rings only in theaters. Get tickets now: Fandango.com/ShangChi
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Disabled people told you how hard it was to receive basic accommodations even in the Before Times. People shouldn't be shocked but here we are in the middle of a raging pandemic where lives are at risk 🤦🏻‍♀️ The. ADA. Isn't. A. Magical. Wand. #CripTheVote #ADA
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Cornell will not accommodate requests from disabled or chronically-ill faculty to teach online. Ruth Colker: "the process of seeking reasonable accommodation is 'supposed to be an interactive good-faith dialogue, in this case b/w an employer &an employee." insidehighered.com/news/2021/08/1
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Part of the police reform called for by advocates in Connecticut and across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death involves dealing with people in the disability community. One approach is creating registries of people with disabilities. wnpr.org/post/registrie
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Allies / co-conspirators, here is one of many ways to #StopAsianHate: 's community action fund Plus 👇 - Engage in political education - Follow Asian and Asian American people & support their work - Learn about Asian American history - SHOW THE FUCK UP
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Hate Is A Virus is thrilled to announce the commUNITY Action Fund, our efforts to raise $1 MILLION to give back to local & national community organizations that are providing pivotal services and programs for our community.
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“A lot of people have had a brush with what it’s like to live a disabled life these last two years, and a lot of them want to forget it as quickly as possible.“ -
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Abled-Bodied Leftists Cannot Abandon Disabled Solidarity to "Move On” From COVID truthout.org/articles/abled
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Some people get treatment and can recover from COVID while others cannot. This is why people mask for others and themselves
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Replying to @benryanwriter
I just want to note that I got Covid from the John Mulaney show at Madison Square Garden last summer while I had cancer and was going through chemo. I took Paxlovid and felt better in a couple of days and was just fine.
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Do not conflate violence & hate w/ disability. It’s easier to think about them in pathological terms but it keeps us from dealing w/ the more difficult Qs about white supremacy, toxic masculinity, and all forms of bigotry that is steeped in our society. #ElPaso #CripTheVote
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Replying to @AndrewYang
We also need a national mental health initiative. When people - young men in particular - are set to self-destruct there are often signs that go ignored and unaddressed. Millions are suffering from mental illnesses and there is so much more we can do for each other.
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👀 So…all the high risk & immunocompromised people are gonna have to stay at home, delay care, miss opportunities & remain excluded & forgotten forever?!? If this is the new ‘normal’ you can stuff it #NEISvoid #HighRiskCOVID19 #CripTheVote #COVID19 #SuckItAbleism
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WALENSKY: "I think that we have seen now that this is likely to become an endemic disease here in the United States... We have many diseases that are endemic. Influenza being one of them. That cause us minor challenges year after year, and that we can handle and tackle."
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