Alice Wong and W. Kamau Bell: Disability Visibility
This week, disability activist Alice Wong talks with comedian and journalist W. Kamau Bell. Wong is founding director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating and amplifying disability media and culture.\xa0 She has edited an anthology of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers to mark the 35th anniversary of the ADA, \u201cDisability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century\u201d.\xa0 On October 19, 2020, Alice Wong talked about the book with her good friend, comedian and journalist W. Kamau Bell. \xa0The two also spoke about the extra challenges faced by voters during the time of COVID-19, the importance of abled allies advocating for the disabled community, and their shared admiration for Denzel Washington.\xa0