The Importance of Media Representation and its Impact on Public Health

How we talk about disability frames the way we view the importance of access. The Accessible Stall podcast co-hosts Emily Ladau and Kyle Kachadurian talk about disability a lot in episodes covering everything from pre-peeled fruit and lingerie to health care and ableism. Today, they join the podcast to talk with Lindsay Smith Rogers about why authentic representation of disability is so critical to designing policies and spaces that serve everyone.

To explore the resources recommended in this episode, visit the links below:

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann, with Kristen Joiner

Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking by Julia Bascom

Squirmy and Grubs (YouTube channel)