Check out this amazing piece on Huffpost! What Your Disabled Friends Want You To Know About ‘Going Back To Normal’ Post-Vaccine
“As more people are getting vaccinated and many states are lifting closures and restrictions, people with disabilities are urging non-disabled people to learn lessons from the coronavirus pandemic to create a safer, more inclusive world.”
SLN’s past Communications Consultant, Emily Ladau, even contributed:
“The idea of normal that we seem to hold in our minds really doesn’t include disabled people,” said Emily Ladau, an author and disability rights activist, who is a wheelchair user. “We have an understanding of normal as something that works for people who are non-disabled, who don’t have to take health precautions and access needs into consideration on a day-to-day basis. Are we talking about returning to a world that takes into consideration the lessons we’ve learned from the pandemic or going right back to excluding disabled people?”
Read the whole article HERE.
Find this and more on our COVID-19 Resources page.
