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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Writer and disability advocate Alice Wong has died. She founded the Disability Visibility Project and participated in many other initiatives designed to amplify disabled voices in literature, journalism, politics, and more.
In 2015, she became the first person to visit the White House and meet the president via telepresence robot. She also had a recurring role in Netflix’s Human Resources playing a fictionalized version of herself. She was 51.
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