On November 14, 2025 the beloved disability activist and author Alice Wong passed away.

While close friends & family will gather in-person in San Francisco, all of Alice’s community – conspirators, friends, admirers, and the like – from around the world will be able to join the celebration through a livestream. We warmly welcome the ICS community to join in honoring Alice.

This toolkit is an invitation and resource for folks to participate in Alice Wong’s Celebration of Life. Not just by watching the livestream, but by creating spaces and experiences to honor Alice’s legacies; be it from bed, your living room, your local community center, classroom, or in the streets.

The livestream and virtual reception: Join the livestream and gather for the virtual reception hosted by Calling Up Justice and the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center.

The livestream of the virtual Celebration of Life program is  11 am – 1pm PT (no registration is required). LINK TO THE LIVESTREAM: SF Disability Cultural Center’s YouTube Page.

For access to the virtual reception immediately following the program, 1-2pm PT (requires registration via zoom meeting). LINK TO REGISTER FOR THE VIRTUAL RECEPTION.

There will be ASL interpretation (Deaf interpretation for the formal program) and closed captioning. For access-related questions, email: access@disabilityculturalcenter.org.

For more information about ways to honor Alice and to learn more about her work, please visit: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/celebration-of-life/.