Year of the Tiger

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ABOUT YEAR OF THE TIGER This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist’s journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong. Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future. As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong’s Year of the Tiger will galvanize readers with big cat energy. Introduction ORIGINS A Mutant from Planet Cripton: An Origin Lessons from a Chinese School Dropout Troublemakers First-Person Political: Musings from an Angry Asian American Disabled Girl Rest in Peace, Meowmee The Americans with Disabilities Act Letter to Time Magazine Untitled High School Poem Did You Enjoy High School? ACTIVISM My Medicaid, My Life The Politics of Change by Lizartistry Snack Manifesto The Olmstead Decision and Me Hashtag Activism and #CripTheVote by Lizartistry #CripTheVote: Then and Now Inclusive Politics and the Disability Community by Lizartistry Bay Area Day of Mourning Just Say NOPE Activist Wisdom ACCESS One of Those Aha Moments Why Disabled People Drop Out My Day as a Robot Net Neutrality, Accessibility, and the Disability Community The Last Straw Ode to a Spit Cup Getting to the Marrow Food Heaven by Felicia Liang Let’s Recognize Why #AccessIsLove Pureed Spinach & Mushroom Soup CULTURE The 1 Percent Disabled Club Cat Life (artwork by Sam Schäfer) How I Spend My Caturdays (and Nights) at Home Disabled Faces Westward Ho Year of the Tiger Crossword Lunar New Year Memories Proust-ish Questionnaire STORYTELLING Storytelling as Activism Diversifying Radio with Disabled Voices Choreography of Care Tiger Tips on Interviewing Podcasting as Storytelling Letter to Asian American Disabled Women and Girls About Time PANDEMIC I’m Disabled and Need a Ventilator to Live. Am I Expendable During This Pandemic? Freedom for Some Is Not Freedom for All Cooking in Quarantine: Shelter-in-Place Jook It’s My Body and I’ll Live If I Want To A High-Risk Timeline of Alice Wong, Proto-Oracle In Praise of Peaches No to Normal FUTURE My Disabled Ancestors Ancestors and Legacies The Parasite by Hatiye Garip As I Lay Breathing The Future of Care? Dream Dispatch: Society of Disabled Oracles The Rainbow by Hatiye Garip How to Create a More Inclusive Future Post-COVID The Last Disabled Oracle The Seedling by Hatiye Garip My Grown-Ass Disabled Person Make-A-Wish List Thank You, Mrs. Shrock Future Notice Illustrations Acknowledgments Answers to Year of the Tiger Crossword Permissions Acknowledgments