US disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51

Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51.
Wong died on Friday because of an infection at a hospital in San Francisco, said Sandy Ho, a close friend who has been in touch with Wong’s family.
Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement” who wanted to see a world where people with disabilities, especially those from marginalised demographics who were people of colour, LGBTQ and immigrants, could…