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- **Posted:** 2025-11-18T18:35:51.000+00:00
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Alice Wong, a local activist and author of disability justice, died on Friday in a San Francisco hospital due to an infection, according to the New York Times. Wong was 51. 

Wong was born with muscular dystrophy and spent decades of her life advocating for disability activism. She is well known for the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights the disability community and culture through storytelling, social media and events. 
One of Wong’s long-time collaborations was with the Paul K. Longmore Institute, a hub for disability studies and space for the disabled community at San Francisco State University, which separated from SFSU due to funding issues in June.

Originally from Indiana, Wong credited Paul Longmore, who, at the time, was a history professor and director of the Institute on Disability at SFSU, for her decision to move to San Francisco in the 1990s, when she was an undergraduate at Indiana University looking at graduate schools. 

In 2018, Kudlick, then-director of the institute, interviewed Wong for the fifth annual Longmore Lecture in Disability Studies. Wong spoke about her decision to relocate. 

“I am so lucky that I knew Paul Longmore. A long time ago… I lived in suburban Indianapolis, in the Midwest, feeling very isolated, disconnected,” Wong said. “As I read about disability studies and learning about the independent living rights movement, I knew that I wanted to head west. I knew that the Bay Area would be the place that I belonged.”

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