The McGill Tribune is situated on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst many First Nations, including the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg, among others. “It’s just really nice to have these feelings validated and to know that you’re not alone.” “For a while I thought maybe I was missing something in my communication with my parents and relatives,” Ma said. Wong assured Ma that it is possible to find support in a chosen family. “For me what’s been really helpful is knowing that I’m not alone in this.” “I think I have been traumatized, to be honest, by comments, stereotypes, and assumptions,” Wong said. Wong admitted that for her, sometimes letting go is more productive than trying to educate.
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‘18 and Professor Patitsas’ research assistant, asked if Wong had any advice on how to have productive family conversations about disability in the context of Chinese-American homes. I think this is a call for teachers to really be creative.”ĭuring the question and answer period, Anna Ma, B.A. “I think there are so many creative ways to think about how bring everybody in without making that student feel so under the spotlight. “There are so many things that I wasn’t included in or just put on the sideline as a kind of afterthought,” Wong said. Wong agreed with Patitsas that there must be a shift away from merely tolerating students with disabilities in classrooms, and towards creating an environment that allows them to flourish. Her greatest childhood frustration was the persistent feeling of being a burden on her teachers. Wong shared her experiences growing up with a disability in an educational system designed for non-disabled people. “Right now, the standard in our culture is to not talk about disability, to hide it, make it invisible, and for disabled students, it’s hard for them to know about disabled history.” “One thing I would add on for teachers in the audience is thinking about how you can talk about disability and make that part of your curriculum, because disability touches on everything,” Patitsas said. Both Wong and Patitsas agreed that more disability representation is something that benefits everyone. On the subject of learning and academia, Patitsas highlighted the value of incorporating discussions about disability in classroom curricula. “I do think that scholars should practice plain-language writing because what is the point of creating all this work if people aren’t going to be able to access it? I think people should care about that.” “There’s so much important knowledge being created by scholars that is so out of reach to the communities they’re writing about,” Wong said. She argued that the language in scholarly writings is out of reach from her own understanding, and she pointed to this as being problematic for the greater community of people with disabilities.
Wong did not use much, if any, scholarly writing in her book, because she found it difficult to access in many ways. They talked about their careers or their passions or their work I think that today is really important, more than the basic ‘this is what it’s like’ because I think we’ve seen that already.”
“Not all of them talked about disability. “There’s a lot of people just living their lives, and I think that’s really important,” Wong said. In her introductory remarks, Wong described her book as a celebration of people with disabilities, highlighting universal aspects of humanity. Wong explained the book is intended for all audiences, noting that there is power in accessible language and in digging deeper than the mainstream representations of individuals with disabilities. Wong, the keynote speaker, is the editor of the anthology Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century. 28 to discuss the diverse experiences of people with disabilities. Alex Ketchum, author and disability rights activist Alice Wong and Faculty of Education professor Elizabeth Patitsas gathered virtually on Oct.
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As part of a speaker series organized by McGill Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Faculty Lecturer Dr.
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