Summary of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 I had agreed to two speaking engagements. In the morning, I spoke to one hundred fifty undergraduates on selective infanticide. In the evening, it was a convivial discussion of assisted suicide. I was the token cripple with an opposing view.

#2 I am in the first generation to survive to such decrepitude. Because antibiotics were available, we didn’t die from the childhood pneumonias that often come with weakened respiratory systems. I guess it is natural enough that most people don’t know what to make of us.

#3 I met Peter Singer in 2001, when he was invited to speak at the College of Charleston. I was sent to put out a leaflet and do something during the QA, but I ended up having a conversation with Singer instead.

#4 I had a debate with Peter Singer, an advocate for selective infanticide, in which I argued that the presence or absence of a disability doesn’t predict quality of life. I questioned his replacement-baby theory, with its assumption of other things equal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669387312

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Insights on Alice Wong's Disability Visibility

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had agreed to two speaking engagements. In the morning, I spoke to one hundred fifty undergraduates on selective infanticide. In the evening, it was a convivial discussion of assisted suicide. I was the token cripple with an opposing view.

#2

I am in the first generation to survive to such decrepitude. Because antibiotics were available, we didn’t die from the childhood pneumonias that often come with weakened respiratory systems. I guess it is natural enough that most people don’t know what to make of us.

#3

I met Peter Singer in 2001, when he was invited to speak at the College of Charleston. I was sent to put out a leaflet and do something during the QA, but I ended up having a conversation with Singer instead.

#4

I had a debate with Peter Singer, an advocate for selective infanticide, in which I argued that the presence or absence of a disability doesn’t predict quality of life. I questioned his replacement-baby theory, with its assumption of other things equal.

#5

I was invited to speak with Singer about his views on disability, and I was completely shocked by what I heard. Not only did he believe that parents should be allowed to kill babies with severe disabilities, but he also thought that mixed-race babies were not worth saving.

#6

I was invited to speak at Princeton University, and I had to agree to disagree with Singer. I was criticized within the disability rights movement when I shook Singer’s hand in Charleston, but I had to agree to disagree with him in Princeton.

#7

I was travelling to Princeton to give a