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This is the website of the monthly Intersectional Neurodiversity and the Intersectional 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. From May 2022 onwards, the reading group(s) revolve around a specific theme.

All meetings take place on either the 1st or 3rd Friday of the month, always at 3-4.30pm UK.

Currently, the ADHD Reading Group takes place on both the 1st and the 3rd Friday of the month

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. The Eco-Ability Reading Group will take place the 1st Friday of the month. The Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group will take place on the 3rd Friday of the month. The schedule for 2025 is live now: you can now download the schedule of both reading groups as one document here.

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. The groups are organised and facilitated by Dr Dyi Huijg - and they are neurodivergent-led and disabled-led.

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.

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'.

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.

Do you want to know what other groups and networks are out there?

Have a look at the resources page.

READING GROUPS

Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group: Cripping, Sickening, Neurodiversifying & Maddening Pedagogy

Period: 2025

Meetings: 3rd Friday every month, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Schedule dates & readings: click here. Download the 2025 schedules of both RGs here.

Eco-Ability Reading Group: Disability, Environmental & Animal Justice

Period: 2025

Meetings: 1st Friday every month, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Schedule dates & readings: click here. Download the 2025 schedules of both RGs here.

CURRENT: ADHD Reading Group