This March 2024 photo provided by Sandy Ho shows Yomi Young, left, speaking with Alice Wong at Wong's 50th birthday party in San Francisco. (Sandy Ho via AP) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alice Wong, a ...
More than 10 years later, queer and disabled activists of color coined the term “ disability justice ” to create a framework that went beyond the disability rights movement’s single-issue focus on ...
One July morning in 1990, a crowd gathered on the White House lawn, some in wheelchairs, others holding signs, many with tears in their eyes. President George H.W. Bush lifted his pen and signed his ...
“Tobeas sad as you want to be, to disconnect from your people’s pain — these are luxuries,” says Shatha Abusrour, a disability rights activist based in Bethlehem in the West Bank who coordinates ...
The history of the disability rights movement in India is a history of modest victories alongside some crucial setbacks. However, in recent years, mainstream historiography has valorised these ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51. Wong died Friday because of an infection at a hospital in ...