Oct 5, 2023
For this week’s episode of Off-Kilter,
Rebecca sat back down with Emily Ladau. She’s the editor of the
Voices of Disability Economic Justice Project and the author of
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be
an Ally. She’s someone who’s done an immense amount
throughout her career to shift narratives on disability in the
United States and is a master storyteller whose many superpowers
also include supporting other people in telling their stories. They
had a far-ranging conversation about the Voices of Disability
Economic Justice Project as it comes up on its one-year
anniversary; why it’s so important for people with disabilities to
get to tell their own stories; why storytelling is critical to
policy and culture change; how she ended up on Sesame Street; why
she wrote her book Demystifying Disability; and lots
more.
Links from this episode:
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Check out Emily’s book Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
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Follow Emily on Twitter/X @emily_ladau
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Learn more about the Voices project and how to write for it
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Here is the Off-Kilter episode feat. Emily with writer Alex Ashley Fox on the harms that come from autistic people being forced to mask at work, and here is Alex’s Voices piece