Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups

If you publish in Disability, Mad, Neurodiversity and/or Sick Studies and you want to be accessible and make your pubs available to 'the pulbic', can you please upload a (pre-print) version of your pub on Researchgate and Academia so this public can access it? TYVM

Our next meeting (104) is on 15 Aug. We'll discuss Claire McKinney's (2016) "Cripping the Classroom: Disability as a Teaching Method in the Humanities" muse.jhu.edu/article/6308... (paywall)

I've not been keeping up with announcing RG meetings. Today's (2nd instead of 3rd Fri) is the 103th Cripping Pedagogy RG meeting: Sara Acevedo's (2021) "Lifelines: a neuroqueer politics of non-arrival in an undergraduate disability studies classroom" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... (paywall)

Note that the Eco-Ability RG will discontinue July onwards because I have to prioritise work-work and do not have capacity right now I'm afraid. The last Eco-Ability RG meeting is 6 June (nr.101) w/ 3 texts - but no expectation for you to have read all intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...

Out next meeting - nr.100 ! - will be on 23 May (4th Fri!!!). We will discuss Broderick & Leonardo's (2015). "What a good boy. The deployment and distribution of 'goodness' as ideological property in schools"

And this is an important moment to address again that we in Disability and Neurodiversity Studies should boycott transphobic journal and scholars. Read here the boycott and why some of us boycott post-2018 publications from Disability & Society radssite.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/d...

Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

And note that the Cripping Pedagogy RG meetingof 16 May is moved to the 4th Fri 23 May
Topic: Goodness as ideological property in schools

(PDF) Toxic pregnancies: Speculative futures, disabling environments, and neoliberal biocapital PDF | On Jan 1, 2017, K. Fritsch published Toxic pregnancies: Speculative futures, disabling environments, and neoliberal biocapital | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

The next meeting - Eco-Ability RG - is on Fri 2 May. We'll discuss Kelly Fritsch's (2017). "Toxic pregnancies: Speculative futures, disabling environments, and neoliberal biocapital"
Open access PDF: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A brief message: the Cripping Pedagogy RG of 16 May is moved to the 4th Fri 23 May
Topic: Goodness as ideological property in schools

The next meeting (98) is on 18 Apr 2025 (Cripping Pedagogy RG):
- Topic: ADHD hauntology in education
- Reading: Rojas-Navarro, Alarcón-Arcos & Tabilo-Prieto (2024). "Spectralities of ADHD: hauntological diagnosis amidst agency, politics and pedagogies"
- OA: www.researchgate.net/profile/Seba...

This Fri 4 Apr (Eco-Ability RG), we'll be chatting about 'Disabled women & sustainable development in Africa'.
Text: Tsitsi Chataika. (2017). "Disabled Women, Urbanization and Sustainable Development in Africa"

For the upcoming Cripping Pedagogy RG meeting (nr.96): 21 Mar 2025, 3pm UK, we discuss Black Disability Studies Pedagogy: Reading: Dunhamn et al. (2015). "Developing and reflecting on a Black Disability Studies Pedagogy: Work from the National Black Disability Coalition" dsq-sds.org/article/view...

Hey all, I'm a bit under the weather so the meeting today will be a bit shorter: 3-4pm UK

If you want to join but are not yet on the mailing list, make sure to register. You need to respond to the questions on this page in an email to the reading group: intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/regi... - you can just copy-paste the Qs with your As!

Join us this Fri 7 Mar (3-4.30pm UK) for the 3rd meeting of the Eco-Ability RG (nr.95):
- Topic: Language, mattering humans & disability
- Reading: Chen, Mel Y. (2012). "Language and Mattering Humans [Chapter 1]". Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (pp.21-55)

Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from...

On 14 Mar the exhibition "Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice" opens at the @wellcometrust.bsky.social (across Euston Station, London) - till 14 Sep. It's free, there's step-free access, and other access needs should be covered too
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...

This Friday we will read about and discuss 'internalised ableism in academia'. I'm sure we've lots to talk about!

It was a really interesting conversation! Maybe next time?

In two weeks (21 Feb) we'll discuss Leigh and Brown's paper on internalised ableism in academia muse.jhu.edu/pub/354/oa_e...

Today's conversation about Mannur's reading of (painting and picture of) 'after Bhopal' was so interesting: lots of new ideas and food for thought!

Tomorrow!

Upcoming meeting: Eco-Ability RG (nr.93): 7 Feb 2025
• Topic: Bhopal, disability & environmental justice
• Reading: Mannur, Anita. (2017). "'That Night': Seeing Bhopal through the lens of disability and environmental justice studies" intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...

Next week 7 Feb 2025 in the Eco-Ability RG (nr.93) we will discuss Mannur, Anita. (2017). "'That Night': Seeing Bhopal through the lens of disability and environmental justice studies"

To register for the mailing list: intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/regi...

Wonderful :)

Next week 7 Feb 2025 in the Eco-Ability RG (nr.93) we will discuss Mannur, Anita. (2017). "'That Night': Seeing Bhopal through the lens of disability and environmental justice studies"

To register for the mailing list: intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/regi...

OK, that's it, I'm gonna take my own and the reading group's account, leave Twitter, and move all here to Bluesky. I'll keep the account till after upcoming reading group's meeting
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To register for the mailing list of the Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups, find details here: intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/regi... (copy-pasting your responses in an email suffices)

Next Cripping Pedagogy RG meeting (nr.94): 21 Feb 2025
• Topic: Internalised ableism in academia
• Reading: Leigh, Jennifer, & Brown, Nicole. (2020). "Internalised ableism: Of the political and the personal"
intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...

Upcoming meeting: Eco-Ability RG (nr.93): 7 Feb 2025
• Topic: Bhopal, disability & environmental justice
• Reading: Mannur, Anita. (2017). "'That Night': Seeing Bhopal through the lens of disability and environmental justice studies" intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...