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Alice Wong’s book launch panel offers glimpse into deeply lived personal aspects of different disabilities
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Last Updated August 6, 2020
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The official launch of Alice Wong’s book, “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century” took place during an online event July 25. Wong is a well-known disability activist based in the Bay Area and a presidential appointee to the National Council on Disability under the Obama administration. Wong founded the Disability Visibility Project, which records and amplifies disability culture.
The anthology contains deeply personal stories by the authors focusing on their lived experiences spanning a range of disabilities. As Wong went on to explain during the online launch, the stories were carefully and lovingly selected and ordered to provide a deep dive, acting as “an invitation for people to learn and grow and to want to learn more.”
Indeed, even though each story [...]