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Alice Wong Pressing Matters Lecture

This event has passed. Thank you to those who attended! A recording of this talk will be uploaded to the website soon. In the interim, please see this wonderful student article by Michelle Chen in the SB Statesman for a recap of Wong's talk. 

Kay Sohini Alice Wong Illustration

As part of the Pandemic Narratives Initiative and the Pressing Matters series at HISB, disabled writer/activist Alice Wong visited Stony Brook University by Zoom on Thursday October 7 from 9:45-11:05.

Wong visited the students of ARH 107 Art & Medicine, but the lecture and discussion was open to interested students of the Stony Brook University community.

Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project, created in 2014, a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture. Wong is also a co-partner in four projects: https://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.

Wong’s areas of interest are popular culture, media, politics, disability representation, Medicaid policies and programs, storytelling, social media, and activism. Wong is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people (Vintage Books, 2020) and working on her upcoming memoir, Year of the Tiger, available in 2022.

Alice Wong Tubman Bulletin Board

Bulletin board version of Wong's book cover in the Tubman dormitory on campus.