How to Be a Better Ally, With Disability Advocate Alice Wong
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
Lifehacker
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week we're learning about disability rights and how to be a better ally to the disabled, with activist and consultant Alice Wong. Listen to hear Alice talk about the unique perspectives that disabled people bring to the conversation, what non-disabled people can do to promote and protect equality, and why Crip Camp is essential viewing.
In addition to being the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project, she is also the host of the Disability Visibility podcast, and recently published the book Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the 21st Century.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Upgrad, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Alice Bradley, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. |
| 0:22.1 | And I'm Jordan Calhoun, LifeHackers Deputy Editor. |
| 0:25.1 | Today we're learning about disability rights |
| 0:27.4 | and how to navigate different abilities and disabilities |
| 0:29.9 | with help from our guest, Alice Wong. |
| 0:32.4 | That's one of the things that I think, you know, |
| 0:35.4 | is so awesome about disabled people, is this |
| 0:39.2 | recognition that we're interdependent. |
| 0:43.1 | Alice is a disabled activist, consultant, and founder, and director of the Disability |
| 0:47.2 | Visibility Project, a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community |
| 0:51.6 | dedicated to amplifying disability media and culture. |
| 0:55.5 | In 2020, Alice was named by Time Magazine as one of 16 people fighting for equality in America. |
| 1:01.4 | And this year published her book, Disability Visibility, First Person Stories from the 21st Century. |
| 1:07.4 | So I met Alice for the first time years ago on Twitter, and it was, she was my foray into |
| 1:15.0 | thinking a lot more critically about disability rights and the ADA, and it really exposed me to |
| 1:21.9 | this whole world of people on Twitter that talk about this is an important issue. And one of those |
| 1:27.2 | issues that me, |
| 1:28.5 | as an able-bodied person, just fails to consider so often. So it was really interesting. I also |
| 1:34.5 | recently interviewed her for How I Work, where we got to talk about her experience working from |
| 1:41.4 | home has been just this long-standing one. And obviously, so many people now |
| 1:46.1 | are working from home and are just thinking about a lot of these things for the first time. And |
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