Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox and welcome to With Friends Like These, the show where we talk about

the differences between us without letting them divide us.

I have a very special show this week, special for a few reasons.

One, it is the last show before we go on a quick hiatus, quick, it's relative, it'll

be four weeks.

And it's special because I'm talking to my friend Alice Wong.

She's a disabled rights activist, she's based in San Francisco, she's the editor of an

upcoming anthology by Vintage Books, it'll be available in June, it's called Disability,

Visibility, First Person Stories from the 21st Century, and she's going to offer a first

person story.

The disability rights community, the disability community, the disabled community, however

you want to say it, is mostly invisible to able-bodied people.

Invisible in such a deep way that when I told folks over at Crookhead that I'd be talking

to a disabled rights activist about the stimulus bill, I got responses like, oh, oh, right,

yes.

When you think about it, those people have a big investment and the kinds of changes

we're talking about making to our economy and our healthcare system.

And Alice is so up to date about all of that, she's going to talk about it, and I want

to give a little bit of a content warning.

It's a short conversation, but it is fairly intense.

If you don't want to think about these things, come back when you're ready.

I think it'll be worth it.

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