Jennifer

“What has him so convinced it would be best to allow parents to kill babies with severe disabilities, and not other kinds of babies, if no infant is a “person” with a right to life? I learn it is partly that both biological and adoptive parents prefer healthy babies. But I have trouble with basing life-and-death decisions on market considerations when the market is structured by prejudice.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

“So many disabled people live short lives, largely because of social determinants of health like lack of healthcare, inadequate housing, or unmet basic needs such as clean air and water.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

“The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the world.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

“In high school, I confided in a nurse that I was trying to be sexually active, but bladder and bowel incontinence were affecting my ability to be intimate with my then-partner. Their only solution was to suggest that there would be people who would be “into that.” My dating pool was instantly reduced to people who would fetishize me.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century