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Alice Wong 王美華
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Alice Wong 王美華
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Disability innovation & creativity for the win!Percussionist Kyungho Jeon, who was born blind, used to think his dream of playing in an orchestra was impossible. So he helped create a new type of baton that lets him feel, rather than see, a conductor's movements - and now he can play with an ensemble: cnn.it/2YPYZjj
00:00- 🤬 “I was covered in dirt, ashes, my eyes, my mouth, everything. I was just so thirsty,” Cabrera, who entered a hotel in search of water, said. “And there were hundreds of tourists drinking, having fun and not even caring.”“I think the biggest worry was when we have bodies in that ocean that still had not been discovered, and for us to see them snorkeling when we still haven't retrieved all our dead — that was hard," one local said. nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame…
- Spotted this beautiful poem by Ghassan Kanafani on a street in San Francisco #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #AltTextPalestine
- Hard to believe but I am a 2024 @macfound Fellow! I am accepting the MacArthur Fellowship amidst the genocide happening in Gaza and indiscriminate terroristic attacks in Lebanon by the state of Israel on the 76th year of their occupation of Palestine
- I am a very sick ICU patient. I would be dead without plastic waste.
- When I saw Trump signed the executive order eliminating remote work for all federal employees and hearing the gleeful cheers of his supporters it just enraged me since it disregards the right to accommodations under the ADA. This is just the beginning
- I'm alive bitches! My recent column in @TeenVogue became a terrifying reality last weekend. I call upon you all to help me push for a N95 mask mandate at @UCSFHospitals More to say later. Lots fucking more. disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95… #N95s4UCSF #KeepMasksInHealthcare
📣My latest column for @TeenVogue on the latest surge, how high risk people have been abandoned by the Biden administration, & why I won’t be voting this election w/ quotes from @Tinu @AngelaMSWinCA & @Christine_ScD teenvogue.com/story/covid-is… - It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly.I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers on other sections, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
- As someone who relies on others to mask to keep me safe as a vent dependent trach user, I appreciate all the #YallMasking pics and to all the folks who cannot mask for various reasons I SEE YOU TOO!!
- I cannot breathe through my nose & mouth because of my tracheotomy & ventilator so wearing a mask is not effective My vent doesn’t have a filter that’s like an N95 so I depend on others around me to keep me & themselves safe That’s community care. That’s how it *should* work
- Nurses are the best. Protect staffing ratios. Labor rights are disability rights.
- To paraphrase James Baldwin, to be a writer is to witness. I wrote this on why Palestinian liberation is #DisabilityJustice Please read and share disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/why… #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #CripTheVote #AltTextPalestine #DisabilityRights #IDPwD
