Positively Purple

Build an Inclusive World Where People with Disabilities Can Flourish

Kate Nash

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781398608481
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

WINNER: Business Book Awards 2023 - Diversity, Inclusion & Equality
FINALIST: National Indie Excellence Award 2023 - Social/Political Change For many people with a disability, either visible or invisible, that experience is hard to navigate in the context of work. Champion change, for yourself and others, challenge stigma and become Positively Purple. Sharing a compelling personal story, Kate Nash offers practical advice for how employers can build environments of trust and support for those with disabilities, how employees with disabilities can advocate for themselves and flourish in the workplace and how those without disabilities can be true allies. Don't become guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations when it comes to disabled colleagues, employees and customers. Build disability confidence and help create spaces where people with disabilities feel valued and included.

Table of contents

• Praise for Positively Purple
• Positively Purple
• Contents
• Preface
• A few thanks
• Mind your language
• Introduction
• 01 Disability identity
• 02 Nature, nurture and a new reality
• 03 The soft bigotry of low expectation
• 04 Who do I want to be when I grow up?
• 05 Disability is a political experience
• 06 Build your network to get ahead
• 07 Lonely in a crowd
• 08 Eradicating shame
• 09 Ensuring an organization is better for having you there
• 10 Getting on at work, rather than simply getting in
• 11 Starting a long-haul strategy to change the world
• 12 The third phase of change
• 13 Building disability confidence from the inside out
• 14 The futurists
• Afterword
• Preface
• Index