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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.
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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 Wonghttps://www.youtube.com/live/fBe2OSCb4EE?feature=share
• Activist Alice Wong reflects on The Year of the Tiger and her hopes for 2023https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1153937530/activist-alice-wong-lunar-new-year-yearof-the-tiger-rabbit
The Nora Project
Their mission is to promote disability inclusion by empowering educators and engaging students and communities.
The Nora Project trains and coaches educators and offers a suite of SEL programs that dive deeply into the concepts of empathy and inclusion, explicitly addressing disability and difference as a part of human diversity. To learn more, click here
The Nora Project Resources:
• Tips for Creating an Accessible Halloween for All
• 10 Tips for Hosting an Accessible Holiday Gathering
• Models of Disability: The Medical, Social, and Biopsychosocial
