Disability Solidarity
During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Deepa talks with Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project, about acknowledging & dismantling ableism in social justice movements.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, writer, editor, and community organizer. She is the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. Alice is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people and Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today, an adapted version for young adults. Her debut memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life was published in 2022. Her latest anthology, Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire is available now. In 2024 Alice was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2025, Alice co-partnered with Finnegan Shannon on Disabled Rage, a public art project.
Alice passed away on November 14, 2025, at the age of 51. Per Alice’s wishes, her friend Sandy Ho posted a message on Alice’s personal Instagram account that evening, sharing a note that Alice wrote before her death. In a separate post, Alice’s family wrote, “She will be remembered as being a fierce luminary in disability justice, a brilliant writer, editor and community organizer.”
EPISODE NOTES
Check out Episode 20 of the Disability Visibility Podcast: Asian American Women and Mental Health to hear Alice’s conversation with Emily Wu Truong and Jessica Gimeno about mental health advocacy, the model minority myth, and their personal perspectives as Asian American women.
Disabled People Still Aren't Being Cast to Tell Their Own Stories in Hollywood – Alice Wong, Teen Vogue
Confronting the Whitewashing Of Disability: Interview with #DisabilityTooWhite Creator Vilissa Thompson – Sarah Blahovec, HuffPost
In this short video, “Ableism is The Bane of My Motherfuckin' Existence,” Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern of Sins Invalid discuss disability justice and how ableism intersects with and compounds other forms of oppression.