[New-York-News] Fwd: Disability Visibility event a Tuesday with Alice Wong - spread the word!

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Chancey Fleet

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Hi everyone, just wanted to share a link to an event we have coming up this
coming Tuesday 8/18 that might be of interest. You can register at the following link. Hope
everyone is well!

https://www.showclix.com/event/disabilityvisibility
Disability Visibility: Alice Wong and Maysoon Zayid

The founder of the Disability Visibility Project shares a groundbreaking
collection of first-person stories on the joys and challenges of the modern
disability experience.

[image: Disability Visibility book cover]According to the most recent
census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability.
Some are visible, some are hidden—but all are underrepresented in media and
popular culture. *Disability Visibility*, edited by Alice Wong, responds
with a collection of personal writing by contemporary disabled authors.
Across essays, blog posts, poetry, manifestos, eulogies, and more, the
anthology celebrates the richness and complexity of the disabled
experience, questions readers’ assumptions, and enshrines a document of
disability cultures today.

Alice Wong is joined by comedian and fellow activist Maysoon Zayid to share
their own personal stories and reflect on the myriad others contained
within the collection.

ASL interpretation and real-time captioning will be provided. For any
questions, please email publicprograms at nypl.org<mailto:publicprograms at nypl.org>.


ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
[image: Alice Wong © Eddie Hernandez]Alice Wong is a disabled activist,
media maker, and research consultant based in San Francisco. She is the
founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online
community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media
and culture. Alice is also the host and co-producer of the Disability
Visibility podcast and co-partner in a number of collaborations such as
#CripTheVote and Access Is Love. She has been published or featured in *The
New York Times*, *Eater*, *Teen Vogue*, the CNN original series *United
Shades of America,* *The Guardian*, Al Jazeera, VICE, and BuzzFeed. From
2013 to 2015, Alice served as a member of the National Council on
Disability, an appointment by President Barack Obama.

[image: Maysoon Zayid © Michelle Kinney]Maysoon Zayid is an actress,
comedian, writer, and disability advocate. She is a graduate of and a Guest
Comedian in Residence at Arizona State University. Maysoon is the
co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy
Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time On Air Contributor
to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a columnist for The Daily Beast.
Maysoon had the number one TED Talk of 2014 and was named 1 of 100 Women of
2015 by BBC. She was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and The
Muslims Are Coming Tour. Maysoon appeared alongside Adam Sandler in *You
Don’t Mess with the Zohan* and has written for VICE. She limped in New York
Fashion Week and is a recurring character on *General Hospital*.


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