Katie Sutton

Wonderful closing remarks!

@riacheyne.bsky.social but how did you know?! So lovely to meet you

Day 3 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference at @durhamimh.bsky.social is underway! We’ve got a call for papers (+ more) open at the moment for a special issue on critical ND studies, why not check it out? 👏 💫

@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social

Oh that really is sad…

And wonderfully provocative Roundtable powerfully interrogating what it means to do critical neurodiversity studies from a truly intersectional standpoint, and the limits of institutional-based knowledges. Learnt a lot.

Brilliant keynotes by @remiyergeau.bsky.social and @ainokash.bsky.social on day 2 of the critical ND studies conference have my head spinning about the many potentialities of neurotrans theories and kitchen appliances and of madness as a form of incisive clairvoyance in times of political attack

Trans* Geschichten der Moderne Auseinandersetzungen in Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Medien: warum Trans* Geschichte und Kolonialgeschichte nicht isoliert voneinander betrachtet werden können.

Feels a bit surreal but Trans* Geschichten der Moderne is now available for preorders and available open access after June 30: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Fantastic session on neuroqueer aesthetics with an intersectional German Studies slant featuring Catherine Smale, Denise Henschel and Liselotte Van der Gucht on day one of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conf #cnds25 @durhamimh.bsky.social

Learn more and how to submit your proposal at: drive.google.com/file/d/1Vgth...

How exciting!

Congrats! A fabulous team

It's difficult I am back from my travels in Australia.

open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...

Jeanette Winterson’s reflections post Sydney writers’ festival, on AI, lies, and the state of things.
“I am a fiction writer, so it makes me mad when people call lies ‘fiction’. Fiction is what gets us closer to the truth, not running in the opposite direction.”

📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨

📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!

Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

I reckon you saw the popular version if it wasn’t explicitly signposted otherwise

Viewing experience depends a bit on which version too I reckon

It's 650 now. And darn right we have.

Keep sharing and signing!

tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Excellent critique by @ainokash.bsky.social „The Cass Review, in much the same way as ongoing transphobic trends in current political and cultural discourse, insidiously mobilises neurodivergence with dehumanising and agential consequences for disabled and trans people.“

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...

In light of the news today in the UK, we want to state that
the Neurodivergent Humanities Network is - & will always be - a trans-inclusive space.

Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Non-binary folks are non-binary folks.

Solidarity to our trans and NB friends, today and forever.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Check out the website of this student-led trans* public histories project: transgeschichten.de

University conferences at risk as academic speakers refused UK visas Warnings Britain is closing the door on academic collaboration after a Nigerian lawyer and at least 14 overseas experts are denied entry for one event

The African Studies Association has been dealing with this forever. Example: the case of Christiana Ejura Attah in 2017: "British embassy officials decided Attah was likely not to return to Nigeria, because her husband, also an academic, had been granted a visa to the same three-day conference."

Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained ‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ Dr Alison Barnes says

‘Smart, who has a disability and is queer, has decided it’s too risky to travel to Seattle for the social sciences conference in September. … “As an openly disabled person, I would be very hesitant to be entering right now.”’

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This looks incredible!

Thinking of you Bodie, this is really tough

Thanks @maureenogallagher.bsky.social for pointing it out!

Ervin this is really kind, I really appreciate your shout out - the book really doesn’t contain anything outrageous! Like so many on the list, I see. Scary and sad to see public institutions and libraries risks under this kind of pressure to change their collecting practices

Holocaust book, Maya Angelou's autobiography among nearly 400 items pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge A book on the Holocaust and Maya Angelou's autobiography were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's library this week.

www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-pur...
Feeling oddly proud to have a book on this list of ones pulled from the US naval academy - I see I’m in excellent company! What scary, turbulent times we are in….sending solidarity to those in the US right now in the thick of all this

Huge congratulations to you Molly!

Julia Serano's writings a comprehensive bibliography of Julia's books, anthology contributions, essays & articles, fiction, slam poems, academic papers, and chapbooks

seeing people post about #TransRightsReadathon – you can find links to all my books, plus no-paywall links to all my online essays (stretching back to the 00s!), on my writings webpage: juliaserano.com/writings.html

Great postdoc!