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Neuroqueering is a form of embodied shapeshifting; it is an internal process that helps you discover potential in the spaces between, in Ma

I recently discovered the word 'neurospicy', to describe neurodivergence. Naturally, I wrote a poem about it. Enjoy! Spicy Mind I have a spi...

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One in 68 Americans has autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and diagnosis is often delayed into adulthood in individuals without comorbid intellectual disability. Many undiagnosed adults resort to self-diagnosis. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenology was to explore the experience of realizing a self-diagnosis of ASD among 37 individuals who were not formally diagnosed. Results revealed five themes: feeling “othered,” managing self doubt, sense of belonging, understanding myself, and questioning the need for formal diagnosis.

This article takes up Mia Mingus’ call to “leave evidence” of how we have lived, loved, cared, and resisted under ableist neoliberalism and necropolitics during COVID-19 . We include images of artistic work from activist zines created online during the COVID-19 pandemic and led by the Re•Storying Autism Collective. The zines evidence lived experiences of crisis and heightening systemic and intersectional injustices, as well as resistance through activist art, crip community, crip knowledges, digital research creation, and the forging of collective hope for radically inclusive autistic futures—what zine maker Emily Gillespie calls “The neurodivergent, Mad, accessible, Basic Income Revolution.” We frame the images of artistic work with a coauthored description of the Collective’s dream to create neurodivergent art, do creative research, and work for disability justice under COVID-19. The zine project was a gesture of radical hope during crisis and a dream for future possibilities infused with crip knowledges that have always been here. We contend that activist digital artmaking is a powerful way to archive, theorize, feel, resist, co-produce, and crip knowledge, and a way to dream collectively that emerged through the crisis of COVID-19. This is a new, collective, affective, and aesthetic form of evidence and call for “forgetting” ableist capitalist colonialism and Enlightenment modes of subjectivity and knowledge production that target different bodies to exploit, debilitate, and/or eliminate, and to objectify and flatten what it means to be and become human and to thrive together.

Re•Storying Autism is a critical and creative research project releasing multiple stories of autism made by autistic people and led by Patty Douglas from a neurodiversity affirming perspective.

In 2023, we asked members of Automattic’s neurodiversity ERG, ‘Neurodiverseomattic’, the question “What’s one thing you wish neurotypical people understood about your neurod…

There are alternatives to England’s focus on synthetic phonics, which teaches children to decode words by learning the relationship between letters and sounds.

Dawn Ewan argues that play is not just 'for learning' - it's a biological drive underpinning holistic development. Children also need play for play's sake!

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Absolutely right. We have a bizarre system that treats people as endless separate 'diagnoses', each with an endless wait to see someone. What on earth for? What a waste of money and time. https://t.co/Fd4ESs7Cty— Ann Memmott PgC MA 🌈 (She/They) (@AnnMemmott) April 8, 2024

A beta lib in the Alpha King's court.

The Human Rights Council adopted its first-ever intersex resolution, addressing discrimination, violence, and harmful practices against persons with innate variations in sex characteristics

Multiple studies show that autistic people may be at considerable risk for interpersonal violence & victimization

Hostility toward LGBTQ kids, enshrined in hundreds of new bills, has put families with such children under unprecedented threat, raising risks of suicide and physical attacks

Filmmaker Scott Steindorff learns about Autism.

Brazilian anarcho-punks trace anarchism from the end of the dictatorship through the Workers Party era to struggles against the Bolsonaro regime.

Postdigital Science and Education - This article addresses a serious issue that besets learning design: its over-reliance on frameworks that promise particular outcomes for individual learners that...

1,787 likes, 7 comments - littlepuddins.ieApril 7, 2024 on : "Collectively, these are signs to me personally that a meltdown is imminent 💜 - These are unique to me but some may also be representa..."

And understand that this is confusing.  So when I write about decisions I am making, don’t take them as judgements on people who don’t or can’t make similar decisions. And don’t assume that I am even...

CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) launched National Library Week with today’s release of its highly anticipated annual list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023 and the State of America’s Libraries Report, which highlights the ways libraries and library workers have taken action to address community needs with innovative and critical services, as well as the challenges brought on by censorship attempts. The number of unique titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by ALA.

The findings push back against the notion that many transgender people end up wishing they hadn’t gone through with gender-affirming surgeries.

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

After the U.S. Civil War, white supremacists used felony disenfranchisement to suppress the Black vote. Even now, restoring rights has hit a roadblock.

The normalisation of social power gradients and powered-up relationships is the terminal disease that plagues all empires. Since we live in the context of the convulsions of dying empires, it is im…

The 'White Rural Rage' narrative gets the research wrong. I know, because some of it is mine.

The former president’s embrace of White Christian militantism coincides with a precipitous decline in religious affiliation in the US.