ADHD Reading Group
ADHD Reading Group
(2022, 2024)
The ADHD Reading Group is a spin-off of the Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups. It started in 2022, and continued in 2024. On this page you can find the archive of the reading schedule. (Meeting 1-33 were 'counted' as the Neurodiversity Reading Group.)
FUTURE MEETING
For now, from 2025 there will be no ADHD Reading Group meetings (but, see below). Possibly, the ADHD RG might resume to discuss publications of the special issue I'm (co-)organising - Critical and Intersectional ADHD Thought: ADHDers Think Back (CJDS) - or other publications in the area of Critical and Intersectional ADHD Studies.
In 2025, two other reading groups will take place:
Eco-Ability Reading Group
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Meetings: 1st Friday every month, 3-4.30pm (UK time)
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Schedule dates & readings: click here. Download the 2025 schedules of both RGs here.
Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group
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Meetings: 3rd Friday every month, 3-4.30pm (UK time)
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Schedule dates & readings: click here. Download the 2025 schedules of both RGs here.
ARCHIVE: PAST MEETINGS
Meetings before May 2022 belonged to the Intersectional Neurodiversity Reading Group - the ADHD-RG's predecessor.
Meeting 34: 6 May 2022
Topic: ADHD adults, language & social media
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Guntuku, Sharath Chandra, Ramsay, J Russell, Merchant, Raina M, et al. (2017). "Language of ADHD in adults on social media". Journal of Attention Disorders, 23(12), 1475-1485. [Paywall here]
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Thelwall, Michael, Makita, Meiko, Mas-Bleda, Amalia, et al. (2021). "'My ADHD hellbrain': A Twitter data science perspective on a behavioural disorder". Journal of Data and Information Science, 6(1), 1-22. [Open access here]
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This older article might also be of interest: Alharbi, Rabab S. (2017). "ADHD in 140 characters or less: An analysis of Twitter commentary on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Saudi Arabia". Universal Journal of Educational Research, 5(12), 2186-2195. [Open access here]
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Meeting 35: 20 May 2022
Topic: ADHD & temporal dimensions
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Stenner, Paul, O'Dell, Lindsay, & Davies, Alison. (2019). "Adult women and ADHD: On the temporal dimensions of ADHD identities". Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 49(2), 179-197. [Open access here]
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Nielsen, Mikka. (2017). "ADHD and Temporality: A Desynchronized Way of Being in the World". Medical Anthropology, 36(3), 260-272. [Paywall here]
Meeting 36: 3 Jun 2022
Topic: ADHD, disablement & Eric Fromm
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Veck, Wayne. (2012). "Reflecting on attention-deficient hyperactivity disorder and disablement in education with Eric Fromm". Disability & Society, 27(2), 263-275. [Paywall here]
Meeting 37: 17 Jun 2022
Topic: ADHD & feminism
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O'Donnovan, Maeve. (2010). "Feminism, disability, and women with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder". Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society, 1(1/2), 29-54. [No link available]
BREAK: 1 July & 15 July 2022
Meeting 38: 29 July 2022
Topic: Mind-meandering & ADHD methodology
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Attias, Michelle D. (2020). "Mind-meandering as AD(H)D methodology: An embodied, neuroqueer practice of art-making and resistance in dialogue with Kurt Cobain’s and Lee Lozano’s Journals". Research in Arts & Education, (Dec), 53-85. Available at https://wiki.aalto.fi/download/attachments/185192372/_Michelle_Attias_4_2020-1.pdf
Meeting 39: 5 Aug 2022
Topic: ADHD & being a behavioural problem
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Casella, Ronnie, & Page, Mitch. (2004). "The institutional context of being a behavioral problem". Disability Studies Quarterly, 24(2). [Open access here]
HIATUS: Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
Meeting 40: 2 Feb 2024
Topic: ADHD & academic accommodations
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Morrison, Aimée. (2019). "(Un)reasonable, (un)necessary, and (in)appropriate: Biographic mediation of neurodivergence in academic accommodations". Biography, 42(3), 693-719. [Open access here]
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Terry, David P. (2016). "Explanation not excuse: Attention Deficit Disorder, collegiality and coalition". Disability Studies Quarterly, 36(2). https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/4447/4305
Meeting 41: 16 Feb 2024
Topic: ADHD & self-control
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Koi, Polaris. (2021). "Accessing self-control". Erkenntnis. [Open access here]
Meeting 42: 01 Mar 2024
Topic: ADHD, criminalisation & whiteness
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Heitzeg, Nancy A. (2015). "'Whiteness', criminality, and the double standards of deviance/social control". Contemporary Justice Review, 18(2), 197-214. [Open access here]
Meeting 43: 15 Mar 2024
Topic: ADHD & the responsible subject
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Bowden, Gregory. (2014). "Disorders of inattention and hyperactivity: The production of responsible subjects". History of the Human Sciences, 27(1), 88-107. [Open access here]
Meeting 44: 05 Apr 2024
Topic: ADHD & aboriginal perspective
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Reading: Loh, Pek-Ru, Hayden, George, Vicary, David, et al. (2017). "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: an Aboriginal perspective on diagnosis and intervention". Journal of Tropical Psychology, 7, e2. [Open access here]
Meeting 45: 19 Apr 2024
Topic: ADHD, eco-pharmacology & neurofeminism
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Reading: Gill-Peterson, Jules. (2016). "Neurofeminism. An eco-pharmacology of Childhood ADHD". In: Victoria Pitts-Taylor (Ed), Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism (pp.188-203): NYU Press. [Paywall here]
Meeting 46: 03 May 2024
Topic: ADHD, autonomy, systems & Kant
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Reading: Haye, Andres, Matus, Claudia, Cottet, Pablo, et al. (2018). "Autonomy and the ambiguity of biological rationalities: systems theory, ADHD and Kant". Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39(2), 184-195. [Open access here]
Meeting 47: 17 May 2024
Topic: ADHD & ecological understanding of restlessness
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Reading: Helle-Valle, Anna, Binder, Per-Einar, & Stige, Brynjulf. (2015). "Do we understand children's restlessness? Constructing ecologically valid understandings through reflexive cooperation". International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 10(1), 29292. [Open access here]
Meeting 48: 07 Jun 2024
Topic: ‘ADHD Treasure Hunt’, group work & the social model [note that the topic & reading has changed]
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Reading: Ankori, Galia, & Gutman, Carolyn. (2020). "The ADHD treasure hunt: a group intervention using a social model approach to disability". Social Work with Groups, 43(4), 297-311. [Paywall here]
Meeting 49: 21 Jun 2024
Topic: ADHD, reading & crip time
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Reading: Basten, Laura. (2023). "The Codex is always on crip time: ADHD(ness) and reading". Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, 15, 89-96. [Paywall here]
5 July 2024: SUMMER BREAK: NO MEETING
Meeting 50: 19 July 2024
Topic: Transgender and gender diversity on the ADHD nexus
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Reading: Goetz, Teddy G., & Adams, Noah. (2024). "The transgender and gender diverse and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder nexus: A systematic review". Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 28(1), 2-19. [Open access here]
Meeting 51: 2 Aug 2024
Topic: Spatialising health social movement activism & ADHD politics
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Reading: Edwards, Claire. (2014). "Spatialising the contentious politics of ADHD: Networks and scalar strategies in health social movement activism". Health & Place, 29, pp.52-59. [Paywall here]
Meeting 52: 16 Aug 2024
Topic: ADHD, sex(uality) and risk
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Reading: Young, S., Klassen, L. J., Reitmeier, S. D., et al. (2023). "Let's Talk about Sex… and ADHD: Findings from an Anonymous Online Survey". Int J Environ Res Public Health, 20(3). [Open access here]
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Reading: Burton, Shannon. (2023, 15/05). "Why Are So Many Kinky, Queer, or Poly Folks Neurodivergent?". [Blog post]. Sex Coach Shannon. https://sexcoachshannon.com/2023/05/15/neurodivergence-sexuality-gender-and-the-indu/
6 Sep: NO MEETING (Leeds Disability Studies Conference)
Meeting 53: 13 Sep 2024
Topic: ADHD curiosity & inquiry
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Reading: Steglich-Petersen, Asbjørn, & Varga, Somogy. "Curiosity and zetetic style in ADHD". Philosophical Psychology, 1-25. [Paywall here]
Meeting 54: 20 Sep 2024
Topic: Race, ADHD & higher education
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Reading: Lewis, Chantelle Jessica, & Arday, Jason. (2023). "We’ll see things they’ll never see: Sociological reflections on race, neurodiversity and higher education". The Sociological Review, 71(6), 1299-1321. [Open access here]
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Listening: Lewis, Chantelle (2021). “Episode 13 Apr 2021: Black women, education & neurodiversity” (interview by Chantelle Lewis with Vivienne Isebor, co-founder of ADHD Babes), Surviving Society podcast, https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/e121-the-surviving-society-alternative-to-womans-hour-adhd-babes
Meeting 55: 4 Oct 2024
Topic: Counter narrating ADHD
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Reading: Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna, Hultman, Lill, Österborg Wiklund, Sofia, et al. (2023). "Intensity and variable attention: Counter narrating ADHD, from ADHD deficits to ADHD difference". The British Journal of Social Work, 53, 3647–3664. [Open access here]
Meeting 56: 18 Oct 2024
Topic: ADHD & minimalism in fiction
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Reading: Jones, Sophie A. (2020). "Minimalism’s attention deficit: Distraction, description, and Mary Robison’s Why Did I Ever". American Literary History, 32(2), 301-327. [Open access here]
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Reading: Robison, Mary (2002). Why Did I Ever: Counterpoint Press.
Meeting 57: 1 Nov 2024
Topic: ADHD, work & capitalism
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Reading: Meadows, Jesse. (2022, 05/07). "Would you still have ADHD without capitalism?". [Blog post]. Sluggish. https://www.sluggish.xyz/p/would-you-still-have-adhd-without
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Reading: Basu, Laura. (2022, 15/05). "Attention Deficit Disorder, the Anticapitalist Condition". [Blog post]. Open Democracy. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/attention-deficit-disorder-anticapitalist/.
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Reading: Olufemi, Lola. (2021, 07/10). "Hours against the clock: on the politics of laziness". [Blog post]. Autonomy. https://autonomy.work/portfolio/hours-against-the-clock
Meeting 58: 15 Nov 2024
Topic: ADHD, cultural & a transactional model of disability
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Reading: Flowers, Johnathan (2021). "Disability as a Cultural Problem". Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 5(4), 39-61. https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/files/pdf/eidos/2021-04/eidos_18_flowers.pdf
Meeting 59: 6 Dec 2024
Topic: ADHD, men & school-to-prison pipeline
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Reading: Kent, Hope, Kirby, Amanda, Hogarth, Lee, et al. (2023). "School to prison pipelines: Associations between school exclusion, neurodisability and age of first conviction in male prisoners". Forensic Science International: Mind and Law, 4, 100123. [Open access here]
Meeting 60: 20 Dec 2024
Topic: Racial politics & the ‘minimal brain dysfunction’ diagnosis
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Reading: Staub, Michael E. (2018). "Minimal Brain Dysfunction, Ritalin, and racial politics". The mismeasure of minds: Debating race and intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve (pp.49-77): University of North Carolina Press.
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