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Bay Area Legends: Activist Alice Wong and The Power of Bringing Visibility to Disability

2025/1/24
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Alexis Madrigal
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Yomi Sachiko Young
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Alice Wong: 我致力于追求快乐和享受生活，即使面临身体的挑战。我的幽默感帮助我应对日常的微攻击和侮辱。我认为残疾人应该讲述自己的故事，而不是由其他人代劳。我成长于一个对残疾缺乏理解的家庭，但我学会了独立自主地为自己争取权益。获得麦克阿瑟天才奖对我个人和我的社区都意义重大。残疾解放与所有人的解放息息相关，我的写作是一种激发行动的倡导形式。我希望在广播中听到各种各样的声音，打破对“标准”声音的刻板印象。我创建了自己的播客《残疾可见性》，因为我不再等待或乞求被接纳。“残疾可见性项目”旨在通过口述历史来创造残疾人历史。 Alexis Madrigal: Alice Wong是一位杰出的、大胆的残疾人权利活动家和作家。Alice Wong利用讲故事的方式来推动残疾人正义，并提升其在政治上的关注度。 Yomi Sachiko Young: Alice Wong是一位多才多艺的活动家、朋友和政治伙伴，也是一位美食家和艺术家。Alice Wong的贡献推动了残疾人权利运动从关注残疾人权利本身转向关注残疾人权利和正义。残疾人正义框架关注残疾与其他系统性压迫形式的交叉点。在当前的政治环境下，保持可见性虽然具有风险，但我们不能退缩，而应该团结起来，共同应对挑战。 Sandy Ho: Alice Wong是一位朋友、倡导者和值得敬佩的人，她为个人和社区做了很多事情。Alice Wong的工作邀请那些可能没有将自己视为残疾人或被其残疾政治化的人参与进来。我们需要继续发声，并提出尖锐的问题，以推动残疾人正义。 Emily Flores: Alice Wong的作品改变了我对自身和残疾的看法。社会对残疾的看法主要基于医学模式和慈善模式，这让我感到与自身脱节。Cripple Media是一个旨在赋能年轻残疾人的媒体平台。

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This chapter explores Alice Wong's life, her joyous approach despite challenges, her views on pleasure activism, and the importance of disability visibility. It touches upon her MacArthur Genius win and the ethical concerns she has about AI-generated speech.
  • Alice Wong's joyous approach to life despite daily challenges
  • Her views on pleasure as political and the works of Dr. Sami Shaikh and Adrian Murray Brown
  • Ethical concerns about AI-generated speech: cost, energy consumption, and exploitation of labor

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Writer and disability justice activist Alice Wong’s illness took her ability to speak without technological assistance, but she continues to make herself, and members of her community, profoundly heard. As part of our new series profiling legends of the Bay Area, Wong joins us to talk about her joyous approach to life and her recent MacArthur Genius win, and to share some favorite interviews recorded with StoryCorps as part of her Disability Visibility Project. We also check in with fellow disability rights activists about the evolution of the movement and the importance of being heard.

Guests:

**Alice Wong, **disabled activist, writer and community organizer; founder, Disability Invisibility Project; author, "Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life."

**Yomi Sachiko Young, **Oakland-based social justice organizer, disability justice dreamer

**Sandy Ho, **executive director of the Disability and Philanthropy Forum

**Emily Flores, **journalist and founder/editor in chief, Cripple Media