bigotry
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#ItsOkayToNotBeOkay didn’t go far enough: So what will?
Since the mid to late 2010’s, the hashtag #ItsOkayToNotBeOkay has been circulating the Internet a lot. With it came the normalisation of…
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AuDHD and the politics of neurodivergent embodiment
When living life as an AuDHD (Autistic and ADHD) person, we often find ourselves falling prey to the propaganda of Western society’s…
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Being Autistic doesn’t automatically make you a good person
When I was new to the Autistic community, I was somewhat naive. Compared to the circles I had existed within during active…
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Bigots keep trying to tell us the meaning of words, I have bad news for them
I have repeatedly seen bigots use the “correct” meaning of words in order to try and invalidate and oppress minority groups. An…
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Spectrum 10k researchers have given up on hiding their eugenics agenda
CW: Termination of pregnancies, amniocentesis, pre-natal testing, eugenics Edit: This is just a focus group at this point, but it is terrifying…
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Cure culture and normative attitudes towards Autistic people
Nothing sickens me more than people who believe that being Autistic requires intervention. The idea that we have to “improve” an Autistic…
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10,000 to midnight: Spectrum 10k and the struggle to exist
“We have to tear down these structures, not just at the surface where projects such as S10k exist, but also at the…
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Neuroqueer: Dismantling our internalised ableism
This article was co-authored by David Gray-Hammond and Katie Munday Trigger Warning: This article contains references to systemic and structural oppression, multiple…