Emily Ladau

Emily Ladau

Emily Ladau is an internationally known disability rights activist, writer, and speaker. She is the editor in chief of the Rooted in Rights blog, a platform dedicated to amplifying authentic narratives of the intersectional disability experience. She also co-hosts The Accessible Stall, a podcast about disability issues. Ladau's writing has been published in outlets including the New York Times, HuffPost, CNN, Self, Salon, Vice, The Daily Beast, Variety, and Marie Claire Australia. Her work is also included in the Criptiques Anthology and About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times. She has served as an expert source on disability issues for outlets including NPR, Vox, Washington Post, and Teen Vogue, and has been featured in a range of press outlets including Newsday, BuzzFeed, CBS News, and U.S. News & World Report.

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Book covers for True Biz by Sara Novic, Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong, Being Heumann by Judith Heumann, and The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland against a gray background. True Biz book cover shows a colorful hand signing against a peach background. In red letters at the top it says "New York Times Bestseller" The title is below that in larger letters, of all different colors, purple, green, blue, red. "Sara Novic" is in black letters below that and below the author name there is also a quote in black letters: "Tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged." -- New York Times Book Review Next to that, there is the Year of the Tiger book cover by Alice Wong, which has a red stencil tiger across the right side of the cover. Beside the tiger to the left it says "Year of the Tiger" in black letters. And below that in red letters it says "An Activist's Life" Below that in black letters it says "Alice Wong." To the right of the tiger in red letters at the top right corner of the book it says "Alice Wong provides deep truths. Required reading." —Selma Blair, author of Mean Baby. At the bottom right corner it says in red letters, "Editor of Disability Visibility." Next to Year of the Tiger to the right, is Being Heumann by Judith Heumann. The cover has a gold background and has a photo of Judith Heumann at its center, with her fist pressed against her chin. There are red and purple flowers around her. In black letters at the top it says "Being Heumann." Just below the image of Judith Heumann in two blocks of white horizontal lines, it says in black letters "An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist" Below these lines in black letters it says "Judith Heumann with" and then in red letters it says "Kristin Joiner." At the very bottom there is a quote in black letters "Her life story as an activist will enlighten readers everywhere." and in white letters beside that it says "Gloria Steinem. The final book on the image to the right is "The Country of the Blind" by Andrew Leland. It's a white book cover with images of different people, one with a service animal, a few holding canes, one in a wheelchair, another person with a walker, two people holding hands on rollerblades. Black text across the cover says "The Country of the Blind." Below that in much smaller letters it reads "A Memoir at the End of Sight" and Below that in larger black letters again, it says "Andrew Leland."

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