Georgia Rivers and Monique Huysamen discuss how social care policy can better understand the way in which autistic adults and people with learning disabilities express their desires.
In the first post of our series from the Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities PhD School, researcher Katie Munday explores the radical potential of joy as a generative process in research spaces.
Gulsabah Palinko explores representations of autism in seven recent films, considering their impact on public perceptions.
‘I am an autistic academic obsessed with how the poetic rules are broken.’ Laura Brook on neuroqueer approaches to the teaching of poetry.
Alex Chand, Rebecca Lewis and Anna Stenning highlight the role of autistic students in dispelling myths about both autism and the epistemic authority of the arts and humanities.
Kim Crowder recounts, discusses, and explores neurodiversity and a heightened sensitivity to smell. Olfactory: Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; concerned with smelling. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. My first post-pandemic train
In this blog for World Autism Acceptance Week, James McGrath, an autistic poet and academic, advocates the value of “stimming” and explores how it relates to poetry. I dedicate the lipogramatic poem below to
How may individuals with sensory acuity and struggling with fear and anxiety be encouraged to participate more in social activities? Dawn-joy Leong reimagines conducive spaces for all, inspired by natural Autistic ways of coping with and responding to hypersensitivity.
Becki Smith reviews A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking (The MIT Press, 2020) by Wouter Kusters (translated by Nancy Forest-Flier). This is Part Three of a Book Forum on A Philosophy
James Rakoczi reviews Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Unraveling is about facilitated communication, regimes of personhood, and just how far our nervous systems
