I’m Not Broken
What this Washington reporter with autism wants you to understand.
Open Society
They Know Exactly What They're Doing
Those who follow recipes want to make the dish. Those who stay neutral about this fact want it made for them.
On the Origins of “They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds”
After the Families Belong Together protests this past weekend, we talk to Greek media scholar Alexandra Boutopoulou on the widely used phrase, "They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds," and its poetic origins.
Psychological strengths and well-being: Strengths use predicts quality of life, well-being and mental health in autism - Emily C Taylor, Lucy A Livingston, Rachel A Clutterbuck, Mitchell J Callan, Punit Shah, 2023
Strengths-based approaches to autism are increasing in research and clinical practice. Such approaches suggest facilitating autistic people to increase the use ...
Grievance-Based Parent Organizations Are Autism's MAGA Movement — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Horrified by the misinformation peddled by MAGA truthers? You should be just as concerned about grievance-based autism parent orgs.
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: NEUROQUEER THEORY BOOK • NEUROQUEER
Dearest Colleagues, A couple of major academic publishers have recently approached me about putting together a Neuroqueer Theory anthology. I’ve taken this as a good indicator that the time is ripe for such a thing—though I’ve decided to publish it through the worker-owned indie publishing collective Autonomous Press (of which I’m a founding member), because
Black Autistics 🇬🇧 on Twitter
“Autism as Environmental Displacement -
I've been reflecting on the Autistic phrase 'I want to go home' and how our sensory environments too often feel opposed to our nature; like we are fish out of water.”
Born Fabulous Podcast on Twitter
“"Autism is not defined by an absence. It is defined by vividness. I see the world in all its colours and sounds. You see 20 shades of green. I see 200. I notice the things that others don't. It is chaotic, but it's vivid. - by @ItsEmilyKaty / Thanks I CAN Network Ltd for the post”
What works may hurt: Side effects in education - Journal of Educational Change
Medical research is held as a field for education to emulate. Education researchers have been urged to adopt randomized controlled trials, a more “scientific” research method believed to have resulted in the advances in medicine. But a much more important lesson education needs to borrow from medicine has been ignored. That is the study of side effects. Medical research is required to investigate both the intended effects of any medical interventions and their unintended adverse effects, or side effects. In contrast, educational research tends to focus only on proving the effectiveness of practices and policies in pursuit of “what works.” It has generally ignored the potential harms that can result from what works. This article presents evidence that shows side effects are inseparable from effects. Both are the outcomes of the same intervention. This article further argues that studying and reporting side effects as part of studying effects will help advance education by settling long fought battles over practices and policies and move beyond the vicious cycle of pendulum swings in education.
WHY “WHAT WORKS” WON’T WORK: EVIDENCE‐BASED PRACTICE AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Educational Theory - 2007 - Biesta - WHY WHAT WORKS WON T WORK EVIDENCE%E2%80%90BASED PRACTICE AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN.pdf
Schools Are Not Labs: Why "What Works" May Hurt
For years now, there have been increased calls for teaching to become an “evidence-based” practice, as teachers have faced immense pressure to adopt the expe...
Ann Memmott PgC MA (She/They) on Twitter
“It's an example of what we see All The Time.
That no-one bothers to ask us.
Then they make up an alleged fact.
Then their alleged fact makes it into policy.
Then they tell us that we don't know anything, because we're not like the Children They Did Not Ask.
It's boggling stuff”
How To Build A Solarpunk City
I believe our cities should belong to us. They should be cooperative, co-creative, ecological, and egalitarian spaces, by and for the people. We have so much untapped urban potential just waiting to be explored. Join me as we determine how to build a solarpunk city.
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The Rise of Urbanisation - 3:52
City Planning - 10:01
The Right to the City - 15:48
SKIT - 19:35
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Anarchist Urban Struggles - 31:11
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The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow
Seeing Like A State by James C Scott
Colin Ward - Housing: an Anarchist Approach
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
Social Ecology and the Right to the City by various
The Limits of the City by Murray Bookchin
How ‘woke’ became the least woke word in U.S. English (on Marcus Garvey)
An Op-Ed piece by Bijan C. Bayne for The Washington Post. You want to talk about Black history? Well, here’s a bit of etymology about a word that everyone’s been using but few have gotten quite rig…
"Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution"
Unapologetically Black & Positive on Twitter
“@vanguard_pod This is the true origin of "Stay Woke"
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"But You Do Not Look Autistic! Adult Autism : A Critical Clinical Update" Bernadette Grosjean, M.D.
Grand Round given at Harbor UCLA (Torrance, California March 14, 2023)Dr Grosjean has been a psychiatrist for over 30 years. She worked as Faculty at Harbor ...
A systematic review and meta-analysis of suicidality in autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability - Molecular Autism
Background Suicidality is highly prevalent in autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disabilities, and high autistic traits are found in adults who have attempted suicide. However, prevalence rates for both autistic and possibly autistic people have not been synthesised meta-analytically. Aims To (1) calculate pooled prevalence estimates of suicidality in autistic people and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability; (2) evaluate the influence of participant and study level characteristics on heterogeneity; and (3) determine the quality of evidence. Methods Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines were followed. PsycINFO, Embase, MEDLINE and Web of Science were systematically searched from 1992 to January 25, 2022. Empirical quantitative studies reporting prevalence of suicidal ideation, suicide plans, or suicide attempts and behaviours were considered for inclusion. Random effects models were used to estimate pooled prevalence of each suicidality outcome with 95% confidence intervals. Heterogeneity was explored using sensitivity and moderator analyses. Results Data from 48,186 autistic and possibly autistic participants in 36 primary studies were meta-analysed. Pooled prevalence of suicidal ideation was 34.2% (95% CI 27.9–40.5), suicide plans 21.9% (13.4–30.4), and suicidal attempts and behaviours 24.3% (18.9–29.6). High levels of heterogeneity (I2 75) were observed in all three analyses. Estimates did not differ between autistic or possibly autistic samples. Geographical location (p = 0.005), transgender or gender non-conforming samples (p 0.001) and type of report (p 0.001) significantly moderated suicidal ideation, whereas age group (p = 0.001) and measure of suicidality (p = 0.001) significantly moderated suicide plans. There was a significant association between the proportion of male participants and prevalence of suicide plans, with a decrease in the proportion of males for every unit change of suicide plan prevalence (p = 0.013). No variables were found to moderate estimates of suicide attempts and behaviours. Conclusions The results confirm suicidality is highly prevalent in both autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability and highlights potential moderators. Possibly autistic individuals require more attention in clinical and research considerations going forward to further understand and prevent suicide in both groups.
The results confirm suicidality is highly prevalent in both autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability and highlights potential moderators. Possibly autistic individuals require more attention in clinical and research considerations going forward to further understand and prevent suicide in both groups.
In addition to high levels of mental health problems, autistic people are at a significantly increased risk of suicidality (suicidal ideation, suicide plans, suicide attempts, and death by suicide) compared to non-autistic people. An influential study of late diagnosed autistic adults found 66% had experienced suicidal ideation, which was nine times higher than the general population, and 35% had a suicide plan or had made a suicide attempt [10]. Moreover, a greater number of autistic adults are found to score above the psychiatric cut-off on measures of suicide risk compared to non-autistic adults [11, 12]. Large-scale population studies also report a four- and ninefold increase in death by suicide among autistic people compared to the general population [13, 14], and up to a sevenfold increase in suicide attempts [15], where this risk is the highest in autistic females and autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability (ID) [13,14,15,16]. As suicide is a critical global health challenge and one of the leading causes of death worldwide [17], understanding this increased risk of suicidality in autistic people is essential for adequate risk assessment and preventative strategies.
The current findings also suggest suicidal ideation is higher in autistic and possibly autistic samples who are transgender or gender non-conforming. This is unsurprising, as transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in the general population exhibit much higher rates of suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviour than their cisgender peers [89,90,91]. Along with this, autistic people are more likely to be gender diverse than non-autistic people [74, 92], and gender-diverse people are also more likely to be autistic [93]. It is therefore possible that the intersection of these two identities compounds the risk of suicidality, resulting in a higher prevalence estimate.
Medscape Article Reviews the Fatal Flaws of the DSM
Leaders in psychiatry urge doctors to ignore the specific criteria in the DSM and suggest that the manual may actually impede good medicine.
What is Placemaking?
Placemaking is a participatory process for shaping public space that harnesses the ideas and assets of the people who use it.
Power and crisis
It’s obvious that corporations are trying to claw back power nowadays by using layoffs (when not in crisis just to increase numbers) and…
Autism and Neurodiversity: A Vision for a More Equitable Future
Autistic children tend to be taught to fit into neurotypical molds, instead of being taught about neurodiversity & what being autistic means.
Autistic Misrepresentation in Autism Research: An Open Secret | Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science helps professional scientists, researchers, and graduate students to explain their work and its significance clearly and vividly to their target audiences.
Theodor Adorno and the Crises of Liberalism
At the center of Adorno’s work was a reminder that fascist movements are not exceptional to liberal democracy but signs of its failure.
Who's drawn to fascism? Postwar study of authoritarianism makes a comeback | CBC Radio
A groundbreaking study conducted in the wake of the Second World War by a group of scholars rocked the academic world when it was published in 1950 — but fell out of favour. Now a new generation of scholars is reviving the lessons of The Authoritarian Personality to understand the politics of our time.
Police training programs have a pseudoscience problem
Experts told Insider not only that there's a lack of science in police training, but there's also no one to regulate the spread of misinformation.
How being "woke" lost its meaning
Stay woke: How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.
But “woke” and the phrase “stay woke” had already been a part of Black communities for years, long before Black Lives Matter gained prominence. “While renewed (inter)national outcry over anti-Black police violence certainly fueled widespread and mainstream usage of the word in the present, it has a much longer history,” deandre miles-hercules, a doctoral linguistics researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara, told me.
The earliest known examples of wokeness as a concept revolve around the idea of Black consciousness “waking up” to a new reality or activist framework and dates back to the early 20th century. In 1923, a collection of aphorisms and ideas by the Jamaican philosopher and social activist Marcus Garvey included the summons “Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!” as a call to globalBlack citizens to become more socially and politically conscious. A few years later, the phrase “stay woke” turned up as part of a spoken afterword in the 1938 song “Scottsboro Boys,” a protest song by Blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly. The song describes the 1931 saga of a group of nine Black teenagers in Scottsboro, Arkansas, who were accused of raping two white women.
Lead Belly says at the end of an archival recording of the song that he’d met with the Scottsboro defendants’ lawyer, who introduced him to the men themselves. “I made this little song about down there,” Lead Belly says. “So I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there — best stay woke, keep their eyes open.”
Lead Belly uses “stay woke” in explicit association with Black Americans’ need to be aware of racially motivated threats and the potential dangers of white America.
Given that this oldest-known introduction of “woke” to the mainstream comes in a 1962 opinion piece about how white Americans are always appropriating the Black vernacular, it’s almost as though the word predicts its own fate.
Kelley argued that because Black Americans know their language is constantly being appropriated, the language itself is constantly changing. “By the time these terms get into the mainstream,” he observed, “new ones have already appeared. [...] A few Negroes guard the idiom so fervently they will consciously invent a new term as soon as they hear the existing one coming from a white’s lips.”
“[Kelley]’s use of ‘woke’ is linked closely to contemporary definitions of the word as he is writing about Black people’s awareness of the racial dynamics at play in the process of linguistic appropriation,” miles-hercules said. “As a linguist and anthropologist, I highlight this piece specifically because it demonstrates both how language, culture, and power are always connected and, crucially, that this is not news to Black people. We been knew ... we stay woke.”
Kelley directly connects “woke” Black culture back to an awareness of systematized white violence against Black people.
“Wokeness is costly,” he continued. “When people claim the label without enduring the difficulties that go along with truly anti-racist actions, then it’s in a vacuum.”
The Library Initiative | Alliance for Self-Directed Education
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Ableism Pocket Pop Ed
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