About this Event
Book Launch: The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World, Tiffany Yu in conversation with Ali Cameron
Saturday, April 11th | 7 pm, Massy Books, 229 E. Georgia St., Vancouver, BC
Join Massy Books and Legacy Lit as we host Tiffany Yu in Conversation with Ali Cameron for the launch of “ The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World.” On Saturday, April 11th at Massy Books, we will spend an evening examining disability—how to unpack biases and build an inclusive and accessible world.
Registration is required and is expected to fill up quickly, so make sure to get your tickets soon!
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The venue has a gender neutral bathroom.
Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended. We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
The Book:
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto frames context for conversations, breaks down the language of ableism, identifies microaggressions, and offers actions that lead to authentic allyship.
• How do we remove ableist language from our daily vocabulary?
• How do we create inclusive events?
• What are the advantages of hiring disabled employees, and what market opportunities are we missing out on when we don’t consider disabled consumers?
With contributions from disability advocates, activists, authors, entrepreneurs, scholars, educators, and executives, Yu celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to foster the proximity, intimacy, and humanity of disability identities that have far too often been “othered” and rendered invisible.
Author:
Tiffany Yu is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur, disability advocate, and content creator. She is the founder and CEO of Diversability, a social enterprise aiming to elevate disability pride and build disability power. Having started her career at Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, and REVOLT, Yu is now an in-demand corporate speaker, creating an approachable bridge in corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion spaces. Yu is the cofounder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, serves on the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Working Group, and was a co-chair of the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit. Her TED Talk, How to Help Employees with Disabilities Thrive, has over one million views. Her work and story have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Insider, Marie Claire, Forbes, USA Today, The Guardian and more.
Moderator:
Ali Cameron is the founder of Seated Perspectives, a platform and community dedicated to disrupting narratives around disability and amplifying disabled voices. Through storytelling, advocacy, and working with other disabled creators, Ali explores disability, identity, and what it means to take up space in the world. Her work centres disabled joy, lived experience as authority, and the power of community connection, both online and off.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Massy Books, 229 East Georgia Street, Vancouver, Canada
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