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disabilitydaily.bsky.social Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Mar 27
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Alice Wong, American disability #activist; #Canadian #polio survivor & #engineer Elsie MacGill; & Tashiro Furukawa, #Japanese teacher of the #deaf & #blind.

Listen & read transcript:
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Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman in a power chair, against a background of bamboo trees. She is wearing a blue cardigan and sitting in a power chair. She is holding a copy of her memoir, Year of the Tiger, a paperback in yellow and red with a fierce tiger on it designed by Madeline Partner. She is wearing a bold red lip color and a trach at her neck. Alt text from Disability Visibility website. Title panel in comic book with an illustrated Elsie MacGill wearing a bright red top, glasses, and hair pulled up. She holds a pencil and piece of paper at a desk, with fighter planes in the background. Text reads Queen of the Hurricanes, Elsie MacGill. How a woman conquered terrible handicaps and became chief engineer of Canada's great Hurricane fighter plane factory. Google Doodle showing hands of students signing Google in Japanese sign language and fingerspelling.
May 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM