Hi! I’m glad you’re here.
Somehow, the world continues to turn and the holidays are approaching. My goal, as always, is to find ways to uplift disabled people and harness some joy among the chaos. Can you believe the holiday season is here already?! So, it’s once again time for my favorite holiday tradition: putting out the annual Disability Holiday Gift Guide along with my friend Kate Caldwell, a nationally recognized consultant on disability entrepreneurship. I started doing this in 2014, and somehow it’s been 10 years since then? I won’t get all existential on you, but it’s hard to believe how easily time passes.
Anyway, now for the fun part! In this guide, you’ll find both cute and practical items from disabled entrepreneurs, some books by disabled writers, and a few disability-led organizations to support. Sending good, hopeful vibes your way for a festive holiday season.
Drum roll, please…The Original Disability Holiday Gift Guide 2024!
Brought to you by Emily Ladau and Kate Caldwell
Follow and share on social media with the hashtag: #DHGG24
Click here for the full festive infographic. To ensure accessibility, I’ve got you covered with an image description: A list of disabled-owned businesses, books by disabled authors, and disability-led organizations is spread out over three slides. The first two slides, which feature the businesses, have a gingerbread and holly theme, with a brown, red, and green color palette. Cute gingerbread cookies are scattered in the border. On the first slide, text is in red and green with a brown banner below that says “The Original Disability Holiday Gift Guide 2024 by Emily Ladau & Kate Caldwell. Check out Gift Guides from past years below!” Under the text, gift guides from 2016-2023 are linked on images of little cakes with holly. The third slide features the authors and the organizations on a dark green background with an art-deco vibe, including ornaments. The business listings each include a small thumbnail image of an item from the shop. The book covers are next to each title, and the organization logos are next to each organization’s name.
2024 Disability Holiday Gift Guide
Tab Buddies
By Rolando & Christa Robelin
Cute tab opening gadgets for anyone who struggles to open drink or food tabs.
Use code GIFTGUIDE10 for 10% off through 12/31/24.
Pill Joy
By Thredd Tenenbaum
Fun pill organizers to match your personality.
Books Cats Tea Crafts
By Cassandra Estey & Kathryn Faul
Whimsical and enchanting products, including stickers, mugs, shirts, sweaters, and notebooks—all designed to bring joy and feline fun into your life!
Use code MerryCatmas for 15% off.
Megan Gros Designs
High quality chainmaille and scalemaille jewelry, accessories, holiday ornaments, and more.
Vertige Adaptive
By Haley Schwartz
Fashion-forward adaptive clothing with discreet features made to accommodate medical devices.
Use code Holiday10 for 10% off through 12/31.
Annie Nishwani Lachhman
Pins and cards celebrating Disability Pride, resilience, and the community’s vibrant diversity.
Mimi’s Little Loveys
By Amy Bernhardt
Pretty and practical gifts for home and baby, created using traditional sewing methods to produce heirloom quality products.
Use code holiday24 for 15% off total purchase through 12/30/24.
Crippling Hot Sauce
By Drew Davis
Hot sauce crafted in small batches.
Use code GIFT for $10 first order.
Maklouf Designs
By Natalie Maklouf
Funky and whimsical wearable art.
Use code HolidayCheer for 10% off until 1/2/25.
No Limbits
By Erica Cole
Accessible clothing created by a team of disabled designers.
Use code ADAPTIVE for 15% off.
Adapting Yoga
By Melanie Waldman
Virtual and accessible adaptive yoga classes anywhere in the world where you can create connection.
Use code DISHOLIDAY for discounted sessions.
Author’s Corner
Dateable: Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled
By Jessica Slice and Caroline Cupp
Shiny Misfits
By Maysoon Zayid and Shadia Amin
The Routledge Companion to Disability and Work
Edited By Oana Branzei and Anica Zeyen (with a chapter contribution co-written by Kate!)
Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics
By Jess Whatcott
Give Back
Support a disability-run organization this holiday season!
HEARD Commissary Fund
HEARD’s Commissary Fund is a direct way to help incarcerated people by providing funds for essential items like food, hygiene products, and stamps for communicating with loved ones.
Center for Racial & Disability Justice
CRDJ works to promote the rights and voices of marginalized people, primarily focusing on the intersection of race and disability.
Able News at The Viscardi Center
A monthly digital publication that highlights local, state, and national disability news while amplifying perspectives of the diverse, vibrant disability community. Gift subscriptions are available! Subscribing supports providing paid writing opportunities for disabled people.
Infinite Flow Dance
An award-winning Los Angeles-based professional dance company and nonprofit that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with diverse identities, with a mission to advance disability inclusion, one dance at a time.
Past Disability Holiday Gift Guides
The Fine Print
This post isn’t sponsored. Neither I nor Kate Caldwell assume responsibility for any issues with sellers or orders. Please don’t republish any part of this gift guide in print or online. If you would like to share the gift guide via any other publication, please write a little blurb and include the link directly back to this post. You don’t have to let me know if you do this, but I’d love if you did so I can personally express my appreciation. Thank you and happy, happy holidays!