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The ADHD Reading Group is a spin-off of the Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups. It started in 2022, and after a hiatus resumed 2 Feb 2024. Click here for past meetings and readings. (Meeting 1-33 were 'counted' as the Neurodiversity Reading Group.)

• Intersectional Neurodiversity RG archive

• Intersectional Disability RG archive

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If you want to attend, please find details here how to be added to the mailing list. This also gives you access to the readings.

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Find here more information about the 'Co-constructing ADHD Pedagogy' research project that takes place in the period Mar-Dec 2024.

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COMING MEETING​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Meeting 46: 03 May 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ADHD, autonomy, systems & Kant

• 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]

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FUTURE MEETINGS​​

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Meeting 47: 17 May 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ADHD & ecological understanding of restlessness

• 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]

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Meeting 48: 07 Jun 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ‘ADHD Treasure Hunt’, group work & the social model [note that the topic & reading has changed]

• 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]

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Meeting 49: 21 Jun 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ADHD, reading & crip time

• 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]

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Meeting 50: 5 July 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: Transgender and gender diversity on the ADHD nexus

• 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: 19 July 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: Spatialising health social movement activism & ADHD politics

• 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: 2 Aug 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ADHD, sex(uality) and risk

• 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]

• 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/

 

Meeting 53: 2 Aug 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ADHD curiosity & inquiry

• Reading: Steglich-Petersen, Asbjørn, & Varga, Somogy. "Curiosity and zetetic style in ADHD". Philosophical Psychology, 1-25. [Paywall here]

 

16 Aug: SUMMER BREAK

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6 Sep: NO MEETING (Leeds Disability Studies Conference)

 

Meeting 54: 20 Sep 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: Race, ADHD & higher education

• 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]

• 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

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Meeting 55: 4 Oct 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: Counter narrating ADHD

• 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]

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Meeting 56: 18 Oct 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ADHD & minimalism in fiction

• 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]

• Reading: Robison, Mary (2002). Why Did I Ever: Counterpoint Press. Available here: https://biblio.co.uk/book/why-did-i-ever-mary-robison/d/1278442618, or in your local radical bookshop 

 

Meeting 57: 1 Nov 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ADHD, work & capitalism

• 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

• 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/.

• 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, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ADHD, cultural & a transactional model of disability

• 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, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: ADHD, men & school-to-prison pipeline

• 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, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: Racial politics & the ‘minimal brain dysfunction’ diagnosis

• 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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