10 min

Digital Alchemy - Alice Wong, Digital Spaces as Freedom for Disabled Folks Digital Alchemy

    • Social Sciences

This episode features Alice Wong in conversation with Moya Bailey. Alice shares her experience with disabled activism in the digital era and how the advent of the internet enabled Alice to find community and the tools to create her platform. She elaborates one of her digital campaigns #HighRiskCA, which emerged during the COVID vaccine rollout in 2021. Alice also suggests how academics can be accomplices to disabled activists.

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Featuring
Moya Bailey 
Alice Wong

Sponsors
Northwestern University School of Communication 

More from our guests: 
 
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
IG: @transformisogynoir

Alice Wong
Founder and Director of Disability Visibility Project
Twitter: @SFdirewolf @DisVisibility
Instagram: @disability_visibility
Email: DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com
Newsletter: https://disability-visibility-newsletter.ghost.io

Copy and Audio Editor:  
Dominic Bonelli 

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

This episode features Alice Wong in conversation with Moya Bailey. Alice shares her experience with disabled activism in the digital era and how the advent of the internet enabled Alice to find community and the tools to create her platform. She elaborates one of her digital campaigns #HighRiskCA, which emerged during the COVID vaccine rollout in 2021. Alice also suggests how academics can be accomplices to disabled activists.

Click here for the episode transcript
 
Featuring
Moya Bailey 
Alice Wong

Sponsors
Northwestern University School of Communication 

More from our guests: 
 
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
IG: @transformisogynoir

Alice Wong
Founder and Director of Disability Visibility Project
Twitter: @SFdirewolf @DisVisibility
Instagram: @disability_visibility
Email: DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com
Newsletter: https://disability-visibility-newsletter.ghost.io

Copy and Audio Editor:  
Dominic Bonelli 

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

10 min