Content note: full quote below contains a little bit of swearing

“A lot of this verbal jousting… I think every disabled person probably has these skills because they’re so used to these, I don’t want to over-dramatize it, but verbal assaults in the public. Like staring, really inappropriate commenting, asking invasive questions that you would never ask any non-disabled person, questions like “How do you do this? How do you that, were you born with this?” It’s none of your fucking business unless you know me, unless you’re my friend, that’s a different story.”

Alice Wong – Disability Visibility Project, 2015

US author and activist Alice Wong is on twitter, instagram, and at the Disability Visibility Project. Her memoir Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life came out in 2022, and she’s the editor behind Disability Visibility, First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century.