Intersectional Neurodiversity Reading Group
(2019-2022)

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ARCHIVE: PAST MEETINGS

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Meeting 1: 19 July 2019

• Topic: Introducing neurodiversity

• Readings:

  • Graby, Steve. (2015). “Neurodiversity: bridging the gap between the disabled people’s movement and the mental health system survivors’ movement?”. In: Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson & Bob Sapey (Eds), Madness, distress and the politics of disablement (pp.231-244): Policy Press. [available here]

  • McWade, Brigit, Milton, Damian, & Beresford, Peter. (2015). “Mad studies and neurodiversity: A dialogue”. Disability & Society, 30(2), 305-309. [available here]

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Meeting 2: 16 August 2019

• Topic: Neurodiversity and intersectionality theory

• Readings:

  • Strand, Lauren Rose. (2017). “Charting relations between intersectionality theory and the neurodiversity paradigm”. Disability Studies Quarterly, 37(2). [available here]

  • Erevelles, N. & Minear, A. (2010). "Unspeakable offenses: Untangling race and disability discourses of intersectionality." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 127-146. [available here]

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Meeting 3: 20 September 2019

• Topic: Education

• Reading:

  • Parekh, Gillian, Brown, Robert S, & Robson, Karen. (2018). "The Social Construction of Giftedness: The Intersectional Relationship Between Whiteness, Economic Privilege, and the Identification of Gifted". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7(2), 1-32. [available here]

  • Optional extra: Manning, Erin. (2018). "Me Lo Dijo un Pajarito. Neurodiversity, Black Life, and the University as We Know It". Social Text, 36(3 (136)), 1-24. 

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​​​Meeting 4: 18 October 2019

• Topic: Gender

• Readings:

  • Winter, Helen, Moncrieff, Joanna, & Speed, Ewen. (2015). "'Because you’re worth it': A discourse analysis of the gendered rhetoric of the ADHD woman". Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12(4), 415-434.​ [available here]

  • Ng, Isla. (2017). "The Digitization of Neurodiversity: Real Cyborgs and Virtual Bodies". Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, 38(2), 160-170. [available here]

  • Rozsa, Matthew. (2017, 15/03). "LISTEN: Black, female and autistic — hiding in plain sight. Salon talks to Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu of the Autism Women’s Network about race, gender and the spectrum". [interview available here]

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Meeting 5: 22 November 2019

• Topic: Race

• Reading: 

  • Annamma, Subini Ancy, Connor, David, & Ferri, Beth. (2013). "Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit): Theorizing at the intersections of race and dis/ability". Race, Ethnicity and Education, 16(1), 1-31.​ [available here]

  • Onaiwu, Morénike Giwa (2017). "Preface: Autistics of Color: We Exist... We Matter", In: Brown, Lydia XZ, Ashkenazy, E, & Onaiwu, Morénike Giwa. (Eds). All the weight of our dreams: On living racialized autism (pp.TBC). DragonBee Press.

  • Brown, Lydia X.Z. (2014). "Why the Term ‘Psychopath’ is Racist and Ableist", Available at: http://www.bgdblog.org/2014/01/racist-ableist-use-term-psychopath/ 

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Meeting 6: 17 January 2020

• Topic: Environment

• Readings:

  • Gibbons, S. (2017). "Neurological diversity and environmental (in)justice: The ecological other in popular and journalist representations of autism." In S. J. Ray & J. Sibara (Eds.), Disability studies and the environmental humanities: Toward an eco-crip theory (pp. 531-551). London: University of Nebraska Press. 

  • Kafer, A. (2013). "Bodies of nature: The environmental politics of disability," Feminist, queer, crip (pp. 129-148): Indiana University Press.

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Meeting 7: 21 February 2020

• Topic: Queer

• Reading: McRuer, Robert, & Wilkerson, Abby L. (2003). "Introduction: Special issue 'Desiring disability: Queer theory meets disability studies'." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 9(1-2), 1-24. [available here]

• Blog post: Walker, Nick. (2015, 02/05). "Neuroqueer: An Introduction." Neurocosmopolitanism. Available at: http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/neuroqueer-an-introduction/.

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Meeting 8: 20 March 2020

• Topic: Compulsivity

• Reading: Beljaars, D. (2019). "Towards compulsive geographies." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12349. (Advance online publication). [Pay wall available here; pre-publication available here].

• Blog posts: Thom, Jess, TourettesHero: https://www.touretteshero.com/tics/

  • Blog post 1: "Oppositional me" (01/Feb/2020). Available at: https://www.touretteshero.com/2020/02/01/oppositional-me/ 

  • Blog post 2: "Dr Tara Murphy: In Her Own Words" (02/Apr/2013). Available at: https://www.touretteshero.com/2013/04/02/dr-tara-murphy-in-her-own-words/

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Meeting 9: 17 April 2020

• Topic: Art

• Reading: Bakan, Michael B. (2015). "The musicality of stimming: Promoting neurodiversity in the ethnomusicology of autism". MUSICultures, 41(2). [available here]

• Blog post: Tan, Kai Syng. (2019, 24/03). "#ADHDWOMEN making #ADHDART to widen the discourse on mental health," psychART [Blog post]. Available at http://www.psychart.org.uk/index.php/blog/23-%20adhdwomen-making-adhdart-to-widen-the-discourse-on-mentalhealth

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Meeting 10: 15 May 2020

• Topic: Decoloniality

• Readings: 

  • Dirth, Thomas P., & Adams, Glenn A. (2019). "Decolonial Theory and Disability Studies: On the Modernity/Coloniality of Ability". Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 260-289. [available here]

  • Berne, Patty. (2015). "Disability Justice - a working draft by Patty Berne" [blog post] , Sins Invalid. Available at https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/disability-justice-a-working-draft-

  • by-patty-berne

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Meeting 11: 19 June 2020

• Topic: Normativity

• Readings: 

  • Freedman, Justin E., & Honkasilta, Juho M. (2017). "Dictating the boundaries of ab/normality: a critical discourse analysis of the diagnostic criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and hyperkinetic disorder". Disability & Society, 32(4), 565-588.​ [open access version available here]

  • Huijg, Dieuwertje Dyi. (2020). "Neuronormativity in theorising agency: An argument for a critical neurodiversity approach". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Nick Chown & Anna Stenning (Eds), Neurodiversity: A New Critical Paradigm (pp.213-217): Routledge. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 12: 17 July 2020

• Topic: Gender

• Readings: 

  • Shapira, Shahar, & Granek, Leeat. (2019). "Negotiating psychiatric cisgenderism-ableism in the transgender-autism nexus". Feminism & Psychology, 29(4), 494-513. [paywall available here]

  • Davidson, Joyce, & Tamas, Sophie. (2016). "Autism and the ghost of gender". Emotion, Space and Society, 19, 59–65. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 13: 21 August 2020

• Topic: Poetry

• Readings:

  • Mukhopadhyay, Tito Rajarshi. (2010). "Five poems". Disability Studies Quarterly, 30(1). Available at https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1192/1256

  • Savarese, Ralph James. (2010). "More than a thing to ignore: An interview with Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay". Disability Studies Quarterly, 30(1). Available at https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1056/1235​ 

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Meeting 14: 18 September 2020

• Topic: Saneism

• Readings: Wolframe, PhebeAnn Marjory. (2012). "The madwoman in the academy, or, revealing the invisible straightjacket: Theorizing and teaching saneism and sane privilege". Disability Studies Quarterly, 33(1). Available at https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3425/3200

 

Meeting 15: 16 October 2020

• Topic: Fiction

• Readings:

  • Whitehead, Colson (1999). The Intuitionist. Available on e.g. The Book Depository (here) 

  • Martinez Benedi, Pilar. (2019). "Where Racial Meets Neuro Diversity: Pondering “Who’s We” in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 60(2), 179-190. [paywall available here]

 

Meeting 16: 20 November 2020 -- This meeting was cancelled

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​Meeting 17: 18 December 2020

• Topic: Distress & bodymind

• Readings:

  • Price, Margaret. (2015). "The bodymind problem and the possibilities of pain". Hypatia, 30(1), 268-284. [open access available here]

  • Website: Recovery in the bin? https://recoveryinthebin.org

 

Meeting 18: 15 January 2021

• Topic: Neurodiversity studies

• Readings:

  • Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna, Chown, Nick, & Stenning, Anna. (2020). "Introduction". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Nick Chown & Anna Stenning (Eds), Neurodiversity: A new critical paradigm (pp.1-11): Routledge. [paywall available here] 

  • Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna, Stenning, Anna, & Chown, Nick. (2020). "Neurodiversity studies: Proposing a new field of inquiry". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Nick Chown & Anna Stenning (Eds), Neurodiversity: A new critical paradigm (pp.226-229): Routledge. [paywall available here]

 

Meeting 19: 19 February 2021

• Topic: Methods: participatory action research and Photovoice

• Reading:

  • Lam, Gary Yu Hin, Holden, Emily, Fitzpatrick, Megan, et al. (2020). "’Different but connected’”: Participatory action research using Photovoice to explore well-being in autistic young adults". Autism, 24(5), 1246-1259. [paywall available here]  

 

Meeting 20: 19 March 2021

• Topic: Neurobehaviourism

• Reading: 

  • Sjöberg, Mattias Nilsson. (2018). "Toward a militant pedagogy in the name of love: On psychiatrization of indifference, neurobehaviorism and the diagnosis of ADHD—A Philosophical Intervention". Studies in Philosophy and Education, 37(4), 329-346. [open access available here] 

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Meeting 21: 16 April 2021

• Topic: Inclusive education

• Reading: 

  • Liasidou, Anastasia. (2012). "Inclusive education and critical pedagogy at the intersections of disability, race, gender and class". Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 10(1), 168-184.  [open access available here]  

 

Meeting 22: 21 May 2021

• Topic: Applied Behavioral Analysis

• Reading: 

  • Roscigno, Robin. (2019). "Neuroqueerness as fugitive practice: Reading against the grain of Applied Behavioral Analysis scholarship". Educational Studies, 55(4), 405-419. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 23: 18 June 2021

• Topic: Methods: co-production

• Reading:

  • Schormans, Ann Fudge, Allan, Heather, O’Neil Allen, Donavon, et al. (2019). "Research as activism? Perspectives of people labelled/with intellectual and developmental disabilities engaged in inclusive research and knowledge co-production". In: Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib & Kudakwashe Dube (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism (pp.354-368): Routledge.​ [paywall available here]  

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Meeting 24: 16 July 2021

• Topic: Communication

• Reading:

  • Woodfield, Casey L, Katherine, Vroman, Seybert, Jenn, et al. (2020). "“It would be simpler to see success without dominating discourse of ability”". Critical Education, 11(14), 31-53. [open access available here]

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Meeting 25: 20 August 2021

• Topic: Disabled capital

• Readings: Berezin, Jared David. (2014). "Disabled Capital: A Narrative of Attention Deficit Disorder in the Classroom Through the Lens of Bourdieu’s Capital". Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(4). Available at http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3793/3785 

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Meeting 26: 17 September 2021

• Topic: Away from phenomenological psychopathology

• Reading: Fernandez, Anthony Vincent. (2020). "From Phenomenological Psychopathology to Neurodiversity and Mad Pride: Reflections on Prejudice". Journal of Critical Phenomenology, 3(2), 19-22. [open access available here]

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Meeting 27: 15 October 2021 

• Topic: Race & dyslexia

• Reading: Hoyles, Asher, & Hoyles, Martin. (2010). "Race and dyslexia". Race Ethnicity and Education, 13(2), 209-231. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 28: 19 November 2021 

• Topic: Clumsiness meets dyspraxia

• Readings:

  • Morris, Katherine J. (2010). "The phenomenology of clumsiness". In: Katherine J Morris (Ed), Sartre on the Body (pp.161-182): Springer.

  • Emma Warren (2020). “When contemporary dance meets dyspraxia” [Blog post], Wellcome Collection. Available at https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XzVOJxEAACEAzZ8b

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Meeting 29: 17 December 2021

• Topic: ADHD, class & distress

• Readings: Pond, Emily, Fowler, Ken, & Hesson, Jacqueline. (2019). "The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Psychological Distress in Canadian Adults With ADD/ADHD". Journal of Attention Disorders, 23(9), 940-948. [paywall available here]

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​Meeting 30: 21 January 2022, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

• Topic: Homelessness & dyslexia

• Readings: Macdonald, Stephen J. (2015). "‘The invisibles’: Conceptualising the intersectional relationships between dyslexia, social exclusion and homelessness". In: Tom Shakespeare (Ed), Disability research today: International perspectives (pp.112-132): Routledge. [paywall available here]

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​Meeting 31: 18 February 2022

• Topic: Autistic concepts of sex/gender

• Readings: Jack, Jordynn. (2012). "Gender copia: Feminist rhetorical perspectives on an autistic concept of sex/gender". Women's Studies in Communication, 35(1), 1-17. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 32: 18 March 2022

• Topic: Motion & place; space & Tourettes

• Readings: Davis, Kat Kleman, Davis, Jeffrey Sasha, & Dowler, Lorraine. (2004). "In motion, out of place: the public space(s) of Tourette Syndrome". Social Science & Medicine, 59(1), 103-112. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 33: 15 April 2022

• Topic: Neurodiversity & high-concussion

• Readings: Clegg, D., & Rocha, S. D. (2018). Contrasting Political Ontologies of Neurodiversity in High-Concussion-Risk Rural Cultures. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 33(1). [Open access available here]

 

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This was the last meeting (for now at least) of the Intersectional Neurodiversity Reading Group. Go to the page of the ADHD Reading Group for meetings that start May 2022.

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