Well…2025 happened. The world continues to be in fiery chaos, sure, but we can absolutely still embrace joy—which I did, because I got married this year!
And now, somehow, it’s time for one of my favorite holiday traditions: 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 here we are all these years later, sharing the work of disabled entrepreneurs, disabled writers, and disability-led organizations.
Since then, it’s been so much fun to hear about all of the gifts people find, and to see more disability gift guides popping up every year. Here’s hoping you find something in this year’s guide that sparks joy!
Scroll below the graphic gift guide for a plain text version!
2025 Disability Holiday Gift GuideTo ensure accessibility, here’s an image description: A list of disabled-owned businesses, books by disabled authors, and disability-led organizations is spread out over four slides. The first three slides, which feature the businesses, have a festive snowy theme, with a blue and green color palette. On the first slide, text in a fun font says “The Original Disability Holiday Gift Guide 2025 by Emily Ladau & Kate Caldwell. Check out Gift Guides from past years below!” Under the text, joyful penguins, all with different colored ice skates, are skating among snowy trees and cozy gingerbread-esque houses. Linked on each penguin is a different gift guide from 2016-2024. Each business is accompanied by a description and product image, surrounded by snow drifts. The fourth slide features the books. and the organizations on a purple and blue ombre background with an ice crystal motif. All of the businesses, books, and organizations are linked below.
Disability-Owned Businesses
Language Priority
Sara Miller
Latina Deaf-owned business bringing awareness to language deprivation, sign language, and the Deaf community via apparel, merchandise, and online ASL classes!
Cedar & Saltwater
Caitlin Daniel
A female, disabled, and neurodivergent-owned company that embraces social justice through quirky and uplifting stickers and totes.
Naeborhood Projects
Nae Vallejo
Naeborhood Projects is a Black, queer, disabled, survivor–run creative studio offering handcrafted art, storytelling pieces, and accessibility-centered guides that honor community care and connection.
Chronic Pop
Christina Lucille
Fun products that combine chronic illness and a love of art to change the relationship between disability and productivity, and what productivity means for the disabled and chronically ill community.
Big Challenges
Kate Horowitz, Elinor Abbot & Fen
Big Challenges is a disabled artist-run shop selling stickers, stationery, and supportive darkness.
CODE: UNWELL valid through December 31
JChass Art Glass
Jennifer Chassman Browne
Unique fused glass art and jewelry.
Disability Community for Democracy, Inc.
Merch from a peer-run disability grassroots organization in the United States dedicated to preserving, protecting, and defending liberal democracy and our civil rights, no matter who is in power at the local, state, and federal levels.
Retrophiliac
Margaux Wosk
Disability-focused and queer-inclusive designs that help people express themselves and communicate, created by an Autistic disabled designer.
Code: EMPOWER
Pixie with Pens
Messy human art for the exhausted millennial who needs more silliness and whimsy in their life.
Code: HOLIDAYS25 valid through January 2
All Things Sensory
Alissa Hanlon
Fidgets made by a neurodivergent for neurodivergents.
Code: Gift15
The Anti-Planner
Dani Donovan
The Anti-Planner is NOT a planner—it’s an activity book specifically designed to help procrastinators.
Chaos Kitchen
Ashley Alberghini
Handmade natural scented candles from upcycled thrift store mugs and pots. She also runs a food blog with a growing community of kitchen gremlins.
DrLucasH
Lucas Harrington
Fidgets, communication supports, and other neurodiversity pride gifts by an autistic psychologist.
Author’s Corner
Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies
By Kristen Lopez
An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights
By Scot Danforth
Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing
By Jina B. Kim
Spread the Love
More ways to support the disability community this holiday season!
Disability Rights Advocates
DRA pursues high-impact, class-action cases on behalf of people with disabilities, fighting for access everywhere from sidewalks to schools. I’m immensely proud to be the Vice Chair of DRA’s Board, and hope you’ll support their work toward systemic change,
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.
Bring Back New Mobility
New Mobility, a publication that’s been a resource for the disability community for over 30, is raising funds to return to publishing print issues to sustain authentic disability storytelling. I’ve been a longtime reader, and have had the honor of writing for them.
Disabled.Artists Creator Guide
Another great list of disabled creators to buy from this holiday season!
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!