IF YOU WANT TO BE INCLUSIVE, YOU'LL FIND A WAY. IF YOU DON'T, YOU'LL FIND AN EXCUSE

  • An intelligent, inspirational book about one the most important topics of contemporary society.

Raúl Krauthausen is Germany’s best-known activist for inclusion and barrier-free access – and the loudest voice in the country in matters of rights of people with disabilities. “Just consider disability a feature, like the colour of your hair” is one of his basic tenets. He fights across all platforms, digital and analogue, for visibility and against discrimination. His new book raises fundamental, often uncomfortable, questions on inclusion in Germany and prompts his readers to engage with their own ableism, developing an idea of how inclusion could and should be lived on all levels.

"Raúl has a picture of what should be and what better not be. He judges on the basis of his expertise. He does not allow himself to be made stupid, and he likes to look at the world in terms of its changeability. The stringency with which he pursues his path is remarkable, partly because it is fuelled less by ambition than by passion." Roger Willemsen

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Polaris
  • Release: 14.03.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-01029-3
  • 240 Pages
  • Author: Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen
  • Contributed by: Martin Kulik

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IF YOU WANT TO BE INCLUSIVE, YOU'LL FIND A WAY. IF YOU DON'T, YOU'LL FIND AN EXCUSE
Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen IF YOU WANT TO BE INCLUSIVE, YOU'LL FIND A WAY. IF YOU DON'T, YOU'LL FIND AN EXCUSE
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Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen

Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen , born in Peru in 1980, grew up in Berlin. He has osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, which renders him wheelchair-bound. He is a design thinker, inclusion activist and founder of the “Sozialhelden” group. Having studied communications, he has been active and working in the world of media and the Internet for over 15 years. In 2013, Raúl Krauthausen was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In January 2014, he published his biography entitled Dachdecker wollte ich eigentlich eh nicht werden – Das Leben aus Rollstuhlperspektive . Since 2015, he has been running his own talk show Krauthausen – face to face on the topics of culture and inclusion, and in 2020 he started a number of podcasts.