I am holding so much grief, but also so much gratitude that we lived in a world so shaped by her brilliance and creativity. Rest in power, Alice Wong. Your work changed us. Your vision will continue to lead us. Your memory is a blessing and a responsibility we must honor every day through action.

May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.

Alice leaves behind a body of work that will continue to shape movements for decades. But more importantly, she leaves behind communities and relationships she helped build and nurture—relations that will carry her clarity, her defiance, and her tenderness forward.

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

I’m devastated by this loss, and also profoundly grateful that I got to witness her work, her thought, and her example. She deepend how I understand disabled solidarity—what it demands, what it makes possible, and how much responsibility we owe to one another.

Alice moved through the world with a kind of political generosity that made people bolder. She noticed people. She uplifted new voices. She reached out with intention. She gave disabled folks permission to be angry, joyful, complicated, imaginative—to exist beyond the flattened roles we’re assigned.

Alice was a master of calling out power without losing sight of community. She named the violence of austerity, medical rationing, eugenics & state abandonment with unflinching clarity. But she also paired critique with genuine belief that disabled futures are possible & already emerging everywhere

Through DVP & every collaboration she touched she cultivated a vast, intergenerational ecosystem of disabled writers, thinkers, organizers & storytellers. She didn’t hoard influence—she redistributed it. She understood that visibility w/o redistribution is just optics & she refused to play that game

Alice was not only a brilliant disability justice activist—she was a cultural force, political strategist & builder of worlds. She showed how access is built through struggle, creative collaboration, interdependence, and principled refusal. She made the invisible labor of disabled life beautiful.

Yeah, I was never going to be a doll, but you can build stuff with bricks. And at some point like twenty years ago someone told me that wasn't so much "cute" as "striking" and I went, yeah, I can work with striking.