Alice Wong on Being Told She Wouldn’t Live to Adulthood | The Businessweek Show
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- Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project Alice Wong talks about challenging disability stereotypes and her vision for a world where disabled people aren’t siloed. Interview recorded Oct. 26, 2023.
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Love and support from MeKha family from Portland Oregon USA
Tapaskar🙏🇮🇳🌹Put a smile on your face for 10 minutes a day is better than looking around for smiling faces.
You are really amazing and inspiring ! Thanks for sharing your thoughts... Love and Respect from India.
It is important to hear about lived experienced of others. May our shared humanity bring us greater understanding and compassion. Please fix that issue about being allowed (???) to have only up to 2k$ income.
I'm 30 and fully disabled and I'm living on only $200 CAD a month after paying rent. Not sure how much longer I can take this. Have to decide everyday whether to eat or take my medication. Sometimes I only eat every 3 days.
That sounds terrible! I assume you are from Canada - dont they provide better assistance?@@Gaetano.94
Aww she is amazing ❤
More please
Plz tell , what is name of this technology through which she is talking?
Yes, i need to know as well
What is name of device or technology?
Subhanallah, she's awesome
How does she talk?
It was mentioned that she uses text to speech.
Sweet funny lady
The better question you can ask her, how is she talking.
Did you never hear Stephen Hawking talk? 😂
@@elizabethwojcik1620 Yes I heard. But never asked how.
@@DeepakGupta-cy1kz That voice is not her, it's text-to-speech.
this in no way a discriminatory society.. gimme a break.. you know how much money my city just paid for crosswalks and lights and separate islands on roads to be ada compliant that will likely never see a disabled person use? millions and millions and millions of dollars... its not just you that has that limit.... if you live off benefits why do you have 2000 in assets? that's in no way discriminatory... that's fair...
Just because things are better than they used to be doesn't mean discrimination doesn't exist.
Clearly Alice has taken responsibility for her well being in life, I think we can trust her if she says she sees and experiences discrimination.
Critiquing the state of things can include gratitude for what is good now.
Is it possible that you yourself feel ignored by society? Do you feel that disabled people receive attention that you deserve?
Have you ever considered that possibility that one day you might experience a disability?
One in seven persons in the world has a disability. Yet, grants for persons with disabilities constitute just 2% of all human rights funding. Distressingly, this is also the only population group for which global human rights funding has recently declined, based on the latest data released by Candid and Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN).
Common Problem: City governments often do not provide necessary curb ramps to ensure that people with disabilities can travel throughout the city in a safe and convenient manner.
Result: Without the required curb ramps, sidewalk travel in urban areas is dangerous, difficult, and in some cases impossible for people who use wheelchairs, scooters, and other mobility aids. Curb ramps allow people with mobility impairments to gain access to the sidewalks and to pass through center islands in streets. Otherwise, these individuals are forced to travel in streets and roadways and are put in danger or are prevented from reaching their destination.
Spatial injustice is not only expressed through denying a disabled person the right to be in space; it also operates through hegemonic social and economic systems that maintain inequality and exclusion by preventing access to, and the use of, socially-valued resources that are part of the fabric of life - our built environments like parks and town centres, for example, and social services and infrastructure such as transport, health and education.
This fabricated ideology of normal and able is reinforced by a dominant medical discourse that focuses on the ‘deficits’ of non-normative bodies, questioning and problematizing the ways in which non-standardised bodies move, think, speak and act. In capitalist societies, specific body attributes and abilities are also deemed to have greater economic value, while others are considered burdensome and unprofitable.
Such attitudes do not reflect the invaluable diversity of human life, and they allow acts of spatial injustice and human rights violations among disabled people to persevere unchecked.
Imagine that you have no choice about where you live because there’s so little accessible housing; that you’re not able to get out and about in your community because the environment that’s been planned and designed by society excludes you; and that your out-of-placeness is reinforced by the absence of connecting footpaths and inaccessible public transport, services and shops. This is the lived reality of many people with impairments and disabilities.
We must also question austerity policies that position disabled people as burdensome, vulnerable or worse - as ‘fakes’ or ‘benefits cheats’ - policies which have restricted services with profound consequences for our livelihoods and lives. And we should re-establish the importance of community planning which has been suppressed and devalued under neo-liberalism, so that decision-making can be more inclusive of the diversity of people and their needs.
@@Sad_Bumper_Sticker 1 in 7 people have a physical disability? Not possible.. spending millions of dollars so one or two can cross a street safely isn't fair... I wouldn't cross one of the major Streets around my town on foot anyway.. crossing the road is always dangerous. Life's risky but to demand an unreasonable amount of resources be spent on making it a little safer to cross every road if they ever even do which probably hardly ever does anyway.. catch a bus.. I rarely ever see people walking let alone wheelchairs rolling around town.. in my life I've seen one blind person crossing the road.. 7th grade he was a fellow student.. why not put that money into research for fixing disabilities n developing technology to assist people with disabilities .