Events 2021-2022

Photo of an Asian American woman in a power chair. She is wearing a blue shirt with a geometric pattern with orange, black, white, and yellow lines and cubes. She is wearing a mask over her nose attached to a gray tube and bright red lip color. She is smiling at the camera. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography

In Conversation with Alice Wong

An Evening Dedicated to Storytelling and the imagination

Date: Monday, October 4, 2021
Time: 7 p.m. EDT

Join Sarah DiPasquale (Dance), Nick Junkerman (English) and Jamin Totino (SAS/IGR) for a live, virtual conversation and Q&A with Alice Wong, disabled activist, writer, media maker. Aymon Langlois ’23 and Caroline Shea ’22 will be providing an introduction.

Alice Wong is the founder and director of Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. Alice is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people. She is currently working on her memoir, Year of the Tiger, (Vintage Books, 2022).

This event is a presentation of the Arts Administration Program and English Department with support from the Black Studies Program, Dance Department, Office of the Dean of Faculty, Intergroup Relations Program, Office of the President, Sociology Department and Student Academic Services.

Closed Captioning and ASL Interpretation will be provided and are sponsored by Intergroup Relations (IGR) and the Sociology 219C Race & Power class.

Archival recording is available here.