#N95s4UCSF w/ Alice Wong (02/01/24)

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Beatrice speaks with Alice Wong about Alice's campaign to reinstate a mask mandate at UCSF, a hospital system home to a number of physicians who have played an outsized, deleterious, role in advocating for a premature end to covid protections. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/alice-wong-ucsf Find Alice's call to action here: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95s4ucsf-call-to-action/ Find our template letter from Abby here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTyI4yLBuOJQR_IgnYVc17GxCbBT2G32QiENnFLq0kZCDmoLy-c23o8eLX_ISNlCMCA6xARBAUkWfqQ/pub Find Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s template here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JxT8VQbV7ju-xUrKCG6NDeW2scOROyis10wjNg4YnTY/edit Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny (out this week!) here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Further reading: Alice Wong’s most recent column for Teen Vogue: COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-isnt-going-anywhere-masking-up-could-save-my-life Alice Wong, August 2022 (Disability Visibility Project): My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2022/08/07/my-icu-summer-a-photo-essay/ Alice Wong, 2020 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus/ Alice Wong, March 2023 (Teen Vogue): The “Unwinding” of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People Uninsured https://www.teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-coverage-covid Alice Wong’s 2023 interview with KQED: Alice Wong: I Still Have a Voice https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601142614/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice Alice Wong, January 2024 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/

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0:00.0	Remind yourself it never had to be this way, and that all of us can resist in big and small ways.
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1:05.6	or Request them both at your local library and follow us at Death Panel underscore. So we have a great interview for you today,
1:13.6	but before we get to that, I just want to set up what we're talking about and why we're joining
1:18.4	up with our guests to ask you for help with something. Today I'm speaking with Alice Wong,
1:23.7	longtime disability justice activist, writer, and editor. Alice is someone whose work we've been
1:28.4	indebted to for many years, and personally, I really appreciate her, and we've had a lot of fun
1:33.1	working on this interview. Alice is the author of the book Year of the Tiger and activist
1:37.9	life and the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project. She is the host and co-producer
1:43.6	of the Disability Visibility Podcast, which ended in 2021.
1:48.0	And Alice is the editor of the anthology's Disability Visibility First Person Stories from
1:52.8	the 21st Century and Disability, Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, which is forthcoming this April.
2:00.0	Alice recently had a medical emergency that required a trip to the emergency room at UCSF Health,
2:05.6	which is the hospital at University of California, San Francisco.
2:09.6	Alice's trip to the ER was traumatic and harrowing, to say the least, and that was exacerbated
2:15.0	by the current situation of a lack of masking and no broad mandate
2:20.0	for masking in healthcare settings.
2:22.2	Alice is someone for whom a doctrine of quote, one-way masking or masking optional, structurally
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