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November 17, 2025

Disability Rights Activist and Author Alice Wong Dies at 51
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Disability rights advocate and writer Alice Wong has died at the age of
51. When Wong was born with muscular dystrophy in 1974, doctors said she
wouldn't live to the age of 18. Despite that prognosis, Wong went on to
earn an undergraduate degree at Indiana University and a master's degree
from the University of California, San Francisco before founding the
Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to
creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture. This is
Alice Wong speaking with Democracy Now! in 2021.

Alice Wong: "I think a lot of people in the public do not know what
ableism is, and if they hear about it, they actually deny that it
exists. … You know, ableism is systemic. And it's really bound up with
hypercapitalism and white supremacy."



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