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Reading Groups​
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You are invited to attend the Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups. These initially ran separately as the Intersectional Neurodiversity Reading Group and the Feminist and then Intersectional Disability Reading Group. After this, these will run as different themes, but always on the same days: 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, 3-4.30pm UK. Till Dec 2024 the ADHD Reading Group runs. In 2025 the Eco-Ability (1st Fri) and the Cripping Pedagogy (3rd Fri) Reading Groups run.
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To sign up for the mailing list, click here. You only have to sign up once.
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Read about the ground rules here, and about communication, participation and facilitation here. You can email if you have access needs not covered.
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Participation is fairly 'relaxed'.
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The reading groups are intended for academics, students, and activists and community members who are interested in reading and discussing intersectional academic texts on neurodiversity and/or disability. A significant portion of the texts comes from the Social Sciences (in the broadest sense), but we read very widely. The reading groups are neurodivergent/ADHD-led and disabled-led, in case it's relevant. They are organised and facilitated by an interdisciplinary sociologist (Dr Dyi Huijg).
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Each meeting, we read and discuss one academic text and sometimes we will supplement this with non-academic material (text, audio or video). The texts aim to have an intersectional angle and come from, specifically, critical disability and neurodiversity studies, intersectionality studies (e.g. race critical, feminist and queer studies), as well as mad studies -- even though not all areas (e.g. ADHD studies) have many intersectional texts on offer unfortunately. They are grounded in various academic disciplines and explore a range of perspectives. While we might read texts that use the medical/individual model of disability, note that we will do so to critique.
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All meetings are held on Fridays, and all regular meetings start 3pm UK time. The Neurodiversity RG met in London (UK) pre-Covid, but the Disability RG met online from the start. Since 2020 all meetings are online (Zoom). The organiser is located in London (UK), but people attend from various countries and time zones and it is a truly international reading group.
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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.
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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.
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CURRENT: ADHD Reading Group
Period: May 2022 - Dec 2024
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Friday every month, 3-4.30pm (UK time)
Schedule dates & readings: 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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FURTHER DETAILS:
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Coordination & facilitation: 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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