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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
In the discussion that follows, I argue that choice is illusory in a context of pervasive inequality. Choices are structured by oppression. We shouldn’t offer assistance with suicide until we all have the assistance we need to get out of bed in the morning and live a good life. Common causes of suicidality—dependence, institutional confinement,
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Community is resistance.
Alice Wong • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society,
Alice Wong • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
We take constraints that no one would choose and build rich and satisfying lives within them. We enjoy pleasures other people enjoy and pleasures peculiarly our own. We have something the world needs.
Alice Wong • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Community is magic.
Alice Wong • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
(1) I wanted to see more stories about the disabled experience in the present while honoring the past; (2) I wanted to see more stories about everyday people rather than the usual “very important people” duly mentioned at each ADA anniversary; and (3) I wanted to increase the diversity of the mainstream representation of disability, which remains
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Act of 1973 was a federal law that outlawed discrimination based on disability in any program or activity receiving federal funding.
Alice Wong • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Disabled people have always existed, whether the word disability is used or not. To me, disability is not a monolith, nor is it a clear-cut binary of disabled and nondisabled. Disability is mutable and ever-evolving. Disability is both apparent and nonapparent. Disability is pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance, and joy. Disability is
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What began as a way to create space online for people to talk about disability evolved into a nonpartisan campaign encouraging the political participation of disabled people—emphasizing the power of conversations and action in the face of inequality, ableism, and oppression.