as “Metaphoric Ontology,” or plainly, they deny the existence of a single perspective or interpretation. To learn more, click here. Additional resources: • Improving Outcomes for Native American Students with Disabilities While Respecting and Honoring Native Culture - https://sites.ed.gov/osers/2022/12/improving-outcomesfor-native-american-students-with-disabilities-while-respecting-and-honoring-nativeculture/ • Native American Disability Law Center: Empowering Native People with Disabilities https://www.nativedisabilitylaw.org/ Figure 8 Alice Wong in a blue multicolored shirt and grey background
DISABLITY VISIBILTY PROJECT Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, writer, media maker, and consultant. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. Alice is also a co-partner in four projects: DisabledWriters.com, a resource to help editors connect with disabled writers and journalists, #CripLit, a series of Twitter chats for disabled writers with novelist Nicola Griffith, #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online movement encouraging the political participation of disabled people with co-partners Andrew Pulrang and Gregg Beratan, and Access Is Love with co-partners Mia Mingus and Sandy Ho, a campaign that aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love instead of a burden or an afterthought. Alice’s areas of interest are popular culture, media, politics, disability representation, Medicaid policies and programs, storytelling, social media, and activism. She has been published in the New York Times, Vox, PEN America, Catalyst, Syndicate Network, Uncanny Magazine, Curbed SF, Eater, Bitch Media, Teen Vogue, Transom, Making Contact Radio, and Rooted in Rights. To learn more, click here. Additional Resources: • An Evening with Alice Wong https://www.youtube.com/live/fBe2OSCb4EE?feature=share • Activist Alice Wong reflects on The Year of the Tiger and her hopes for 2023 https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1153937530/activist-alice-wong-lunar-new-year-yearof-the-tiger-rabbit
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