Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.

If I were wealthy, I’d spend my time perfecting so many crafts. I’d have sheds built with commercial quality equipment for each new skill. I’d have a studio with all the musical instruments I could get my hands on. I’d have a tower library. Rich people today are so weird and useless.

When the creeper bought twitter and everyone was talking about what they'd do with all that money, my immediate thought was creating a whole community for the disabled & chronically ill, Eureka style. Education, medical, research, food, entertainment, gardens, everything - all accessible.

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

RIP Alice Wong 💖 Alice has been and will always be a guiding star to me. She was such a brilliant advocate, writer, editor, and lovely person. I hope more people continue to practice and fight for #DisabilityJustice in her name 💖

I thank you, Alice Wong—author, activist, daughter, sister, friend, and innovator—for being with us here for as long as you were. I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong... here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

The coarsening of society due to the unmitigated ableism ouroboros has already killed people and I am scared it’ll get worse, but we get called hysterical for even thinking about it.

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

Grateful for the phone call I had today about Alice, community, & other crip things. It was perfect. Just the right dose of joy & real needed at this time.

my mom (once told me “every woman goes through a transgnder phase”, practiced what I can only describe as defensive interior design) said my dad (instinctively afraid of motorcycles, sunglasses indoors, subscription to Canadian Mining magazine) couldn’t be autistic because “he’s not even a genius”

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

This was a genuine roadblock for us when getting our youngest diagnosed; they live in a house with 3 other ND people. A lot of the friction they WOULD experience doesn’t exist in our house, and realizing your kid maybe won’t get diagnosed because you’re not torturing them sufficiently is a WILD time

Chat is it good or bad for their coalition that republicans are polarizing the US Conference of Catholic Bishops specifically against them?

Megillat Alice I met Alice through #Disbility twitter when it was completely new to me but our communities were still together there. Alice had zero ego. She is friendly, compassionate, a force of nature. We had fun convos, hard convos. She was really good at giving advice, listening. cont

Y’all need to learn how to 'yes AND'. There’s a lot of rejecting or dismissing facts because the framing is incorrect/immoral/trite, etc. but that’s doesn’t change the FACT. You can still use and share the FACT while altering or arguing against the framing in which said information was shared.

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

Thank you, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, for your work and for sharing yourself. You were one of the best of us. You are, and will be, missed.

My favorite part of being a scholar is talking cool people into doing cool projects with me. 🥰

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

The irony here is painful. Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name. But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased. Exactly how disabled people often are.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)

Alice leaves behind a body of work that will continue to shape movements for decades. But more importantly, she leaves behind communities and relationships she helped build and nurture—relations that will carry her clarity, her defiance, and her tenderness forward.

I generally treat land acknowledgements like I do corporate DEI trainings: I may inwardly roll my eyes on occasion, but I'm instantly suspicious of people who become outwardly aggrieved by them. For that reason alone I think they actually provide some value.

Honoring Alice Wong's life and legacy with gratitude, in solidarity and sorrow, this morning. I was a fan; thinking of all who loved and knew her personally. Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.

You know who would have published a good obit of Alice Wong? Teen Vogue. But they closed it, just a week before Alice died, screwing her out of her columnist gig a week before her death and making sure TV didn’t cover her death, Dick Cheney’s death or Mamdani’s win. Thanks, Anna Wintour!!!

great idea! It’s why I’d advise freshmen in groups. They end up advising each other. Similar issues arise for them. How to log on to X? or pay Y? etc. One on one seems* bespoke/better but it makes me repeat the same things all day & they miss the chance to share knowledge/make friends/ be of use.

Rest in power, Alice Wong. A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor. She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased. We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward. Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.

My statement from @americanprogress.bsky.social on disability justice activist, author, MacArthur fellow, and cyborg oracle Alice Wong.

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

Losing Alice feels like being hit with a phaser. I will be offline doing Klingon death screams in her honor until I can process this horrible blow to the space-time and disability and community and geekdom and comraderie and cat lover continuums. -SR

It feels desperately painful to see some of the most morally consistent, fierce, clear-eyed, & principled teachers leave us as f@scism continues to balloon—the same f@scism committed to debility & the abandonment of disabled people. Elders, oracles, ancestors. RIP @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

Hey you, keep going! You have to do this for the rest of your life anyway!

Through DVP & every collaboration she touched she cultivated a vast, intergenerational ecosystem of disabled writers, thinkers, organizers & storytellers. She didn’t hoard influence—she redistributed it. She understood that visibility w/o redistribution is just optics & she refused to play that game

Alice was a master of calling out power without losing sight of community. She named the violence of austerity, medical rationing, eugenics & state abandonment with unflinching clarity. But she also paired critique with genuine belief that disabled futures are possible & already emerging everywhere

Alice moved through the world with a kind of political generosity that made people bolder. She noticed people. She uplifted new voices. She reached out with intention. She gave disabled folks permission to be angry, joyful, complicated, imaginative—to exist beyond the flattened roles we’re assigned.

"I insist on resisting with joy and finding pleasure where I can such as with my friends and two cats, Bert and Ernie. Yes, life is a complete dumpster fire, but I am reminded that I am not alone, that I am in this with many others." — Alice Wong, January 2025: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

We’re not doing “disability accommodations are unnecessary and unfair actually” discourse less than 24 hours after Alice Wong has passed. Absolutely the fuck not, even if it is a perfect example of the kind of shit disabled people have to deal with and why Alice’s activism was and is so necessary.

Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design. This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all." Gonna try to hold that.

I’m heartbroken to hear our warrior Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has passed. She was so important to me & welcoming of me. This is the great loss of a true fighter. May she rise to power as an ancestor, may we never forget her lessons & continue her work for disability justice.

I woke up to the news that @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has passed away. I made sure to always give Alice her flowers when we texted or saw each other. I know she knew how much I loved her & appreciated the way she believed in & supported me. But I still wish I could tell her one last time.

For anyone at the National Women’s Studies Association right now, some of us are organizing an impromptu memorial gathering for @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 7-9pm tonight Saturday Nov 15 at the Sheraton hotel pool deck. Come be in community and share memories of Alice. 💜

Waking up & holding two truths in my heart - The joy of seeing two childhood/teen icons last night. Learning of the death of a disabled friend & activist I was just emailing a week ago. To say my heart is tender right now doesn’t cut it. 1/2

Absolutely gutted to hear this news. Alice was a fiery, honest and provocative thinker, a true organizer, and someone who fought hard to build disability community. Just gutted.

Imagine centering Whiteness in a comment about how Alice Wong challenged the Whiteness of disability communities. Ive never been called cowgirl, though, so there is that.