Category: DEI
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Belonging in School
Belonging is very close to the idea of feeling safe. Belonging in School: Resource Introduction Webinar – YouTube We added quotes from the recently released “Belonging in School – a school-level resource for developing inclusive policies” to our “Belonging” glossary page, to our “Accommodation” glossary page, and to the “The Feeling: Electric Belonging and Soaring…
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Sensory Kit on a Clip
Our sensory kit on a clip consists of: Check out these autistic odes to noise-cancelling headphones. They imply a lot about neurology and how misguided behaviorism is. The thesis that introduced neurodiversity to academia called computers an “essential prosthetic device for autistics“. That they are. A decent set of noise-cancelling headphones is another essential device. I remember my first…
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Changelog: For an autistic person it’s about finding the right niche
For an autistic person ‘it’s about finding the right niche’, because ‘if you have a particular interest, you can really thrive in a particular niche.’ Happier on the outside? Discourses of exclusion, disempowerment and belonging from former autistic school staff We updated “Niche Construction”, “Cavendish Space”, and “⛺️🔥 Cavendish Space: Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes…
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Changelog: “Accommodation” Implies a Sort of Permission
We updated our “Accommodation” glossary page with a selection from “The Future of Design Is Designing for Disability” by s.e. smith. “Accommodation” implies a sort of permission, something granted to another person. It suggests that there’s something abnormal about a disabled person that requires extra effort. In the case of the ADA, people fighting accessibility…
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Changelog: Mass school refusal among neurodivergent children is an early form of resistance to neuronormativity.
We updated our ‘School-Induced Anxiety’ page with selections from Robert Chapman and “‘Children are holding a mirror up to us’: why are England’s kids refusing to go to school? | Schools | The Guardian”. While we were updating, we broke the page up into sections and added a table of contents. Mass school refusal among…
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Interdependence, Access Intimacy, and Crip Technoscience: Disabled people do really cool things with language if people would pay attention.
Crip languaging incorporates practices of access intimacy, adaptions of technology, and relationality. To sum up, disabled people do really cool things with language if people would pay attention. View of Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: A Crip Linguistics Manifesto We updated “Crip Linguistics”, “Written Communication Is the Great Social Equalizer”, “Interdependence”, and “Access Intimacy” with selections…
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Oliver Sacks: There is no standard way of being, or knowing, or perceiving.
There is no standard way of being, or knowing, or perceiving. Variation is of the essence. There are an infinite number of ways of being and doing and knowing and remembering. And there are an infinite number of ways of being healthy. Oliver Sacks Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut,…
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No Competition of Hierarchies Should Prevail: Identity Politics, Strategic Essentialism, Rhizomes, Punk, and Oppression Olympics
Identity politics can be employed to simultaneously uplift marginalised members of society and deconstruct the mechanisms of their marginalisation. Spider-Verse, Identity Politics, Leftist Infighting, and the Oppression Olympics – YouTube Identity politics can be one tool we use to override our discomfort with others and instead draw together into coalition. We should use it as…
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Changelog: Equity is not compatible with deficit ideology because the function of deficit ideology is to obscure the actual causes of disparities.
We updated “Deficit Ideology”, “Structural Ideology”, and “Equity” with quotes from Paul Gorski and “Fix Injustice, Not Kids and Other Principles for Transformative Equity Leadership”. Equity is not compatible with deficit ideology because the function of deficit ideology is to obscure the actual causes of disparities. Paul Gorski So we define equity as the active…
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The Double Empathy Problem in the Workplace: More Autistic Employees Accurately Interpret the Behavior of an Autistic Employee Than Non-Autistic People
The Double Empathy Problem and Perceptions of an Autistic Employee in the Workplace by @KASzechy et al found that more autistic employees accurately interpret the behavior of an autistic employee than non-autistic people Autism In Adulthood on Twitter “Autism and Employment Challenges: The Double Empathy Problem and Perceptions of an Autistic Employee in the Workplace”…
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Three Therapeutic Approaches to Supporting Autistic People in Healthcare Settings
We adore the Resources Library at Neurodiverse Connection. It’s very well curated. Their collection of therapeutic approaches lists three great resources that we’ve recommended often and recommend again here. Three Therapeutic Approaches to Supporting Autistic People in Healthcare Settings: We quote these resources all over our website. Here are some featured quotes from each. Autistic…
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Changelog: Ableism is what makes all other “isms” effective
We updated our Ableism glossary page with this distilled truth from Imani Barbarin. Ableism is what makes all other “isms” effective… White supremacy is the goal, ableism is the toolkit. Ableism is a closed loop of a system. Our ableism glossary page opens with this definition from Talila A. Lewis. able·ism /ˈābəˌlizəm/ noun A system…
