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This is the website of the monthly Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups. Initially, these reading groups ran as separate groups. The Intersectional Neurodiversity Reading Group took place on the 3rd Friday of the month between July 2019 and April 2022. At the start this reading group was homed at various locations in London, but since the pandemic has taken place online. The Intersectional Disability Reading Group took place, online from the start, between Jan 2020 and April 2022 on the 1st Friday of the month (with a long break in the middle). From May 2022 onwards, the reading group(s) revolve around a specific theme. In 2022 and 2024 this was the ADHD Reading Group that ran twice a month. Jan-Jun 2025 Eco-Ability Reading Group ran (alongside the Cripping Pedagogy RG).
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​In 2025, the reading groups will continue to cover disability, neurodiversity -- as well as madness, illness etc - and with an intersectional focus, but they focus on a theme. Currently, the Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group takes place on the 3rd Friday of the month (bar Dec).
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In 2026 the Cripping Methodology Reading Group will run (3rd Friday/month, bar Dec).
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Sine 2019, all meetings start 3pm UK.
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The reading groups are intended for academics, students, and activists and community members, and anyone else, who are interested in reading and discussing intersectional academic texts on neurodiversity and/or disability from the Social Sciences and beyond. There are people who have quite consistently attended since 2019/2020, there are folk who attend for a period and then return once in a while, there are people who drop by as/when, some folk attend lying down, others on the school run on their phone - all completely welcome!
The groups are organised and facilitated by Dr Dyi Huijg - who is both neurodivergent and disabled in a variety of ways - and is the one responding to your emails.
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Click here for details how to sign up for the mailing list. When you sign up for the mailing list you can attend meetings if/as/when, and you can get access to the readings three meetings in advance. Signing up does not mean you are required to attend all the time, or at all. You can come and go as needed.
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We also organise, as and when, spin-off initiatives, such as the webinars 'Feminist Perspectives on Neurodiversity and Neuronormativity' and 'Intersectional Approaches to Disability and Race'. A special issue is currently in the making. And a section of the reading group has formed a research team to write an article on 'Co-constructing ADHD Pedagogy'.
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All events organised by the reading groups follow, where applicable, the same ground rules and facilitation, communication and access guidelines. Attendance assumes agreement. Although available to the public, they are (semi-)private initiatives.
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Do you want to know what other groups and networks are out there?
Have a look at the resources page.
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Upcoming: ​​​​Cripping Methodology Reading Group (draft schedule online)
Period: 2026
Meetings: 3rd Friday every month (bar Dec), starting 3pm UK (most months 90min, some 75min)
Schedule dates & readings: click here
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CURRENT: Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group
Period: 2025
Meetings: 3rd Friday every month (bar Dec), 3-4.30pm (UK time)
Schedule dates & readings: click here.
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Eco-Ability Reading Group
Period: Jan-Jun 2025
Archive: click here.
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ADHD Reading Group
Period: May 2022 - Dec 2024
Archive: click here
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Intersectional Neurodiversity Reading Group​
Period: July 2019 - April 2022
Archive: click here
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Intersectional Disability Reading Group
Period: Jan 2020 - April 2022
Archive: click here
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Intersectional Pain & Distress Reading Group (trial)
Period: Mar 2021 - May 2021
Archive: click here
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REGISTRATION MAILING LIST: find info here
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ORGANISATION:
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Organiser & facilitator: Dr Dyi Huijg
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NOTE (07/2020):
The reading groups have stopped reading articles published in the journal Disability & Society after May 2018, in recognition of trans rights as disability rights. For background information, see Dr Jen Slater and Dr Kirsty Liddiard's (2018) article "Why Disability Studies Scholars Must Challenge Transmisogyny and Transphobia" and Dr M. Remi Yergeau's petition.
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