Alice Wong, the trailblazing disability rights advocate and author, died on Nov. 14 at a hospital in San Francisco. She was 51.
Wong, the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, died of an infection, her family said in a statement posted on social media by Wong's friend Sandy Ho, executive director of the Disability & Philanthropy Forum.
"She will be remembered as being a fierce luminary in disability justice, a brilliant writer, editor and community organizer," her family said.
Ho shared a message Wong wrote before her death in which she said she never imaged she "would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist and more."
"It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin," Wong wrote. "We need more stories about us and our culture."
