Review: Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau My rating: 4 of 5 stars Ladau proves an accessible and helpful guide on understanding the complexities of disability in modern society. Her approach is a not a definitive guide but an introduction to the expansive and complex with an invitation to go further but by starting with this book, the reader is off to a good start. She doesn't claim perfect knowledge or understanding of all the complexities of disability and comes to it from her own intersectional experience and her own research on the topic. The book has a little bit of everything to offer if you are new to the topic from a brief history to explaining the different categories of disability, to examining language and appropriate ways to interact with people with disabilities. On that last point, it boils down to treating people with disabilities as the humans they are, askin...