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This is the website of the monthly Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups, run between half 2019-half 2022 and throughout 2024-2026.
The RGs have then run for six years with a total of 119 meetings, and will not continue in 2027.
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). And the whole of 2025 the Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group. Since the start (2019), all meetings have started 3pm UK.
In 2026 the Cripping Methodology Reading Group runs (mostly 3rd Friday/mo). This will be the last reading group.
BACKGROUND:
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.
12 May 2026: the mailing list is closed now.
Spin-off initiatives: the webinars 'Feminist Perspectives on Neurodiversity and Neuronormativity' and 'Intersectional Approaches to Disability and Race'. A special issue is in the making. And a section of the reading group has formed a research team to publish on 'Co-constructing ADHD Pedagogy' and adjacent topics.
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.
Cripping Methodology Reading Group
Period: 2026
Schedule dates & readings: click here
Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group
Period: 2025
Archive: click here.
Eco-Ability Reading Group
Period: Jan-Jun 2025
Archive: click here.
ADHD Reading Group
Period: May 2022 - Dec 2024
Archive: click here
Intersectional Neurodiversity Reading Group
Period: July 2019 - April 2022
Archive: click here
Intersectional Disability Reading Group
Period: Jan 2020 - April 2022
Archive: click here
Intersectional Pain & Distress Reading Group (trial)
Period: Mar 2021 - May 2021
Archive: click here
REGISTRATION MAILING LIST: find info here
ORGANISATION:
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Organiser & facilitator: Dr Dyi Huijg
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.