A person wearing a red blouse sits in a wheelchair, using a ventilator mask. They have short, dark hair pulled back and rest their hands on the wheelchair armrest. A gray wall is in the background.

Alice Wong

Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant based in San Francisco. 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. Currently, Alice is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century available now from Vintage Books (2020). You can find her on Twitter @SFdirewolf.


Articles by Alice Wong

A person with short dark hair wearing a red shirt uses a nasal oxygen mask and sits in a wheelchair, symbolizing disability politics. Next to them, bold white text reads WE WILL EMERGE on a dark, abstract background.
Global Free ExpressionU.S. Free Expression
Wednesday October 28

The Political is Personal

“Being a ventilator user with a neuromuscular disability compelled me to push back against the societal devaluation of disabled lives.”