RaveDatebookIn \'Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life,\' disability rights activist and organizer Alice Wong chronicles her life as a disabled Asian American woman...Through powerful essays, blog posts, interviews, photos and art, Wong offers an intimate and illuminating account of the challenges, joys and frustrations of living in a world not made for people like her...Wong writes powerfully about the financial pressures faced by her family to provide the care she needed, the vulnerability of depending on public programs, and the many forms of discrimination experienced by those who aren’t as physically mobile...Wong is quick to call out an ableist society that sees disabled lives as \'full of suffering and misery\'...In a world that can’t see past the limitations of a disabled body, she writes about her happy childhood, her love of food, her joy of writing and being a sci-fi nerd...She acknowledges the kindness she’s received from her family and others in her community, and doesn’t fail to find the humor in her experiences...An empowering read, \'Year of the Tiger\' challenges us to check any ableist privilege and reconsider the world we have created – a world that is inaccessible and hostile to the most vulnerable among us.
