Our Lives Matter, Too
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How do you educate loved ones about your disability without making them feel like you’re shoving information down their throats? That is this week's question, answered by Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project. Alice underscores the connection between disability justice and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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| 0:00.0 | This sound you're hearing right now is a trilogy 100 bipap ventilator. It's the machine Alice Wong uses to live. And Alice doesn't want you to |
| 0:15.6 | feel sorry for her or treat her any differently. Her disability is just a fact. |
| 0:22.4 | But Alice does want you to see her and the millions of others who live with disabilities. |
| 0:27.0 | Alice and I met last spring when I interviewed her about a ventilator shortage that had forced health care workers to make |
| 0:34.5 | these choices about who got life saving care. And Alice was basically shouting |
| 0:39.7 | from the rooftops, hey, don't forget about those who depend on ventilators or need |
| 0:44.7 | extra care during this pandemic. Basically, our lives matter too. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm Tanya Mosley and on this episode of Truth Be Told, how do we shed ourselves of our |
| 0:58.7 | ablest mindsets that prioritizes the lives of the able-bodied over those who live with disabilities. |
| 1:07.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 1:13.0 | Be told. Dear Truth Be told. |
| 1:15.0 | Dear Truth Be told. |
| 1:16.0 | Dear truth be told. I really need your help. |
| 1:18.0 | I need your help. I need your help. We're joined by Alice Wong. She's the founder of Disability Visibility. It's an online community that shares and amplifies the stories and voices of those with disabilities. And she's also the editor of a new book under the same name. |
| 1:47.0 | Alice has written passionately about her life in the lives of others and the disability |
| 1:51.9 | community for many years now. |
| 1:54.4 | Alice, welcome to truth be told. |
| 1:57.0 | Thank you for having the answer to the lights. |
| 1:59.7 | How are you? |
| 2:01.6 | Still alive, I guess. I think that's the best answer for now it is some year you know in the |
| 2:10.1 | preface of your book you write that you always dreamed when you were younger |
| 2:15.7 | of being able to elevate the voices of people with disabilities and man you are |
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