Demystifying Disability

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Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about, including:

• How to appropriately think, talk, and ask about disability
• Recognizing and avoiding ableism (discrimination toward disabled people)
• Practicing good disability etiquette
• Ensuring accessibility becomes your standard practice, from everyday communication to planning special events
• Appreciating disability history and identity
• Identifying and speaking up about disability stereotypes in media

Authored by celebrated disability rights advocate, speaker, and writer Emily Ladau, this practical, intersectional guide offers all readers a welcoming place to understand disability as part of the human experience.

“A candid, accessible cheat sheet for anyone who wants to thoughtfully join the conversation . . . Emily makes the intimidating approachable and the complicated clear.”—Rebekah Taussig, author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body

About the Author

Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist and author. She has served as the editor of multi­ple publications including Able News at The Viscardi Center, The Century Foundation’s Voices of Disability Economic Justice project, and the Rooted in Rights Blog. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Vice, and HuffPost, and she is a cohost of The Accessible Stall podcast. She has also spoken before audiences from Microsoft to the United Nations and does consulting work to reimagine entertainment industry standards for disability inclusion and create a more accessible cultural landscape.

Emily is the recipient of multiple awards and recognitions, includ­ing Adelphi University’s 10 Under 10 Young Alumni, the American Association of People with Disabilities’ Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award, the Jewish Federations of North America and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism’s Disability Advocate of the Year Award, the New York City Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities’ Frieda Zames Advocacy Award, and the Women’s Media Center’s Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award

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