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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Alice Wong is a brilliant, ribald, disability justice activist and writer.

She's the author of the celebrated memoir, The Year of the Tiger, and the editor of an

anthology of disabled people's experiences with intimacy.

In recent years, Wong's illness took her ability to speak without technological assistance,

but she continues to make herself and members of her community heard.

As part of our new series profiling Legends of the Bay Area,

Wong joins us to talk about her joyous approach to life,

her recent MacArthur Genius win, and the importance of disability, visibility.

That's all coming up next after this news.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. For months, we've been dreaming of launching a new occasional series here on Forum called Legends, where we bring you a different kind of show about a local

figure who's really made a dent in the wider world. We're looking for people who

are generational change makers, people where you say there is a before and an after they entered

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