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Last Chemo day in just over a week. #Amyloidosis #Disability #DisabilityVisibility

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From the Disability Visibility Project:

"Year in Review: 2024 " from Alice Wong

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/12/27/year-in-review-2024/

"In July 10 years ago I founded the Disability Visibility Project. I still have trouble believing all that I’ve done and how much has changed …"

#Disability #DisabilityVisibility

*EINLADUNG*

Liebe Interessierte,

diesen Freitag, 11.10, 18-19:30 Uhr, lädt Ian Boes Euch zu einem intra-aktiven Workshop zu Inklusion und Dis/Ability Visibility in digitalen Spielen ein. Selbst von Mehrfachdiskriminierung betroffen, forscht und lehrt er:sie mit einem queerfeministischen Blick zu und mit digitalen Spielen und nimmt dabei stets intersektional und diskriminierungssensibel unterschiedliche Diversitätskategorien in den Blick. Nach einem theoretischen Input wollen wir gemeinsam ausgewählte Spiele spielen, die die (Un)Sichtbarkeit und Repräsentation be_hinderter Menschen in digitalen Spielen beleuchten und uns zu einem anti-ableisitischen Austausch ermutigen.

Um Anmeldung wird gebeten unter: barrierefrei@uni-potsdam.de

ONLINE: ZOOM-Link wird bei Anmeldung bekannt gegeben.

Teilen ausdrücklich erwünscht - Ian Boes freut sich.

#inclusivegaming #DisabilityVisibility #disabledgamer #DigitalGames #unipotsdam #inklusionleben #disabledlife #disabledscientist #DisabilityAwareness #disabilityingames

ALT TEXT: "Für die Barrierefreizeit lädt Ian Boes zu einem intra-aktiven Online-Workshop ein. Dieser trägt den Titel "Let's Play barriere-frei: Disability Visibility, Inklusion und Gerechtigkeit in digitalen Spielen". Der Workshop findet am 11.10.2024 um 18:00-19:30 statt. Der hellbeige Hintergrund der Einladung ist mit drei Bildelementen verziert, die auf die Diversität und Inklusivität des Workshops hinweisen: mittig rechts richtet eine Schwarze Frau mit pinken Haaren, gelbem Rock und Rollstuhl ein Mikrofon direkt auf den Workshop-Titel. Ihr Arm ist in einer empowernden Geste nach oben gestreckt. Ihr gegenüber in der linken oberen Ecke ist ein gelbes Gespenst zu sehen, das an die Charaktere vom Spiel "Pacman" erinnert. In der linken unteren Ecke ist ein Gameboy in den Farben der trans* Pride."

From Alice Wong:

"Mask Bans Insult Disabled People, Endanger Our Health, and Threaten Our Ability to Protest"

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mask-bans-disabled-people-protest

#Disability #Disabled #ChronicIllness #MaskBan #Masks #DisabilityVisibility

I am abled and learned so much about the past,present,and future of our shared world through Alice Wong's edited #DisabilityVisibility. The rest of the world has so much to learn from #disabilityjustice as climate catastrophe looms around the corner, and manmade famine and war continues to disable our neighbors across the globe. I take solace in knowing networks exist, great precedents radical lives exist, despite the ableist constraints that hinder many to be "disabled".

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project.

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In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong.
Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future. As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong’s Year of the Tiger will galvanize readers with big cat energy.

"Return of the Ugly Laws: In the Name of ‘Modernization,’ the Newsom Administration Wants to Disappear Unhoused and Disabled People from the Streets, Rebuild the Asylums"

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/10/15/return-of-the-ugly-laws-in-the-name-of-modernization-the-newsom-administration-wants-to-disappear-unhoused-and-disabled-people-from-the-streets-rebuild-the-asylums/

#Disability #USPol #California #CAREact #DisabilityVisibility

On October 1, over the vehement objections of disabled activists, housing justice activists, and human rights organizations, the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act went into effect in seven California counties. The law empowers family members, social service providers, police, and first responders to refer primarily unhoused people diagnosed with schizophrenia or other severe mental illnesses to a regime of civil courts that would compel them to accept a “care plan” handed down by a judge. In theory, people are allowed to refuse the care plan, but non-compliance could potentially initiate institutionalization or even conservatorship proceedings.

Inequity is baked into the program. Due to long standing medical and systemic racism, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are more likely to be unhoused, receive severe mental illness diagnoses, be subjected to involuntary interventions, and therefore may be more frequently referred to CARE Court.

"One of Us: Tod Browning’s Freaks, Disability Culture, and the Criterion for Inclusion"

Guest blog by Angelo Muredda

Content warning: usage of a slur for little people

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/10/08/one-of-us-tod-brownings-freaks-disability-culture-and-the-criterion-for-inclusion/

#Disability #Representation #Film #DisabilityVisibility

A colleague is reading and ARC of Against Techoableism & has great things to say about it!

But I'm most excited abt Alice Wong's new anthology (Feb 2024): Disability Intimacy. Contribs include Marieke Nijkamp, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, s.e. smith, and Ingrid Tischer, as well as poetry by Ashna Ali, John Lee Clark, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, and Ellen Samuels, etc. 📚

🔗: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/92833-10-new-books-with-disability-representation-for-adults.html

@bookstodon #ableism #disability #AliceWong #DisabilityVisibility #LibrarianAtWork #ComingSoon

Alice Wong, @SFDirewolf on Twitter and founder/director of the Disability Visibility Project, needs help. Systems that should work for all of us are broken, hence the need. Can you give? I did.
I've learned so much from her writing and others she lifts up. https://gofund.me/44fcbd8e #disability #DisabilityJustice #Medicaid #help #giving #DisabilityVisibility #DisVisibility #CripJustice

Alice Wong is now a columnist for Teen Vogue! 😃

From her post on twitter:

"My first piece is about the Medicaid unwinding process starting 4/1 when states will resume annual redetermination processes for all enrollees which could result in millions losing their coverage"

Headline: The “Unwinding” of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People Uninsured

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-coverage-covid

#Disability #DisabilityVisibility #Disabled #Medicaid #SaveMedicaid #CripTheVote

"Wong is best known for her activism and as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project. Her work focuses on amplifying the voices of disabled people and disability culture, and dismantling systemic ableism in the United States."

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/

#Disability #DisabilityVisibility #Ableism

reading this on a train, wearing an N100 mask, chest aching whenever i breathe in, while two people in this car, both without a mask, are hacking up a lung and not even covering their mouth, is just an incredibly wild experience #disability #DisabilityVisibility #LongCOVID