This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
As with so much in our society, disabled Asian Americans have had to fight for a seat at the table to advocate for issues important to them.
Among those in the forefront is Alice Wong.
She runs the Disability Visibility Project.
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“There are times in my activism when I rarely see people like myself represented,” said Wong in an article for the Smithsonian APA. So often, I’m the only Asian Pacific American (APA) in a room full of APAs talking about disability issues and ableism or the one of a few disabled APAs talking about race from the point of view of a person of color at an event for people with disabilities.”
Wong shares the stories of two other disabled AAPIs, Tony Wong & Jisun Lee, in the Smithsonian APA.
You can also read the story of a hapa with down syndrome here.
