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“Stories For Us and By Us”: Disability Rights Activists Showcase Their Writing.

A collection that defies oversimplification and stereotypes.

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Eleanor J. Bader

October 2, 2018

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Four years ago, disability rights activist and writer, Alice Wong, like many of her peers, was gearing up for the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990. “I wasn’t sure what I could do to contribute and mark the occasion,” she says. Then, inspiration struck and she decided to create what she thought would be a one-year oral history project to give ADA beneficiaries a way to weigh in on the landmark legislation.


She called it the Disability Visibility Project.


Fast-forward to today, and a community partnership between the Disability Visibility Project and StoryCorps—a program Wong had long admired—has resulted in the collection of more than 140 testimonies, many of them now archived in the Library of Congress.


Wong is clearly proud of this. At the same time, she wants to make sure I understand that the Disability Visibility Project has moved from its original mission of story collection to become a vibrant [...]

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