Blocking your bigoted boss on social media is a form of self-care.

I think the failure to include class in the equalities act was a huge error and i suspect this is an under recognised factor in the UK's far right surge. Reform will try to scrap the act completely if they get a chance. If it was updated to include class they'd find that harder.

I wake up a lot of nights nowadays with extreme anxiety and flashbacks relating to trans people being driven out of the workplace, what i've seen personally in academia but also knowing this is happening more and more across sectors in the UK. Look out for your trans colleagues, before its too late.

Diana Rose was a pioneer, fighting her way into a hostile academia, that resisted lived experience and working class voices, especially of women. Many people have opportunities now because of what she did. We honour her by continuing to fight.

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I have a new article out in Labor, I'd appreciate if you'd read it. Thank you! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

There is something particularly depressing about seeing activist orgs publishing obvious AI slop.

I think how institutions not to mention managers etc. respond to the clarified EHRC gender ruling will be a good guide to how they will respond to a far right government that will impose further forms of segregation and exclusion that will impact other minorities. Take note of who you can trust.

Excitedly to be talking at 5pm tomorrow at the RUPTURE RADICAL BOOKFAIR! Saturday 30 May 2026 12 noon to 5 pm Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin, D01 T6V6

Happy to say Books From Below will have a stall at the Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair tomorrow at the Star and Shadow in Newcastle. I can't make it personally but we'll have books and merch and there's loads of great stuff on! newcastlebookfair.org.uk

Good news, the audio version of Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction is out now on Audible, Spotify, etc.! I also have three codes for free Spotify copies, so we can do a competition. Just share and like this and I'll pick three people at random to get the codes this weekend.

Good news, the audio version of Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction is out now on Audible, Spotify, etc.! I also have three codes for free Spotify copies, so we can do a competition. Just share and like this and I'll pick three people at random to get the codes this weekend.

Submitted my book on health fascism for peer review and have been thinking how weird it is that Matt Goodwin would, not too long ago, have regularly peer reviewed academic literature on the far right, influencing what got published or not. He would of course hate my book, too.

Finished Neurodiverdity VSI today. I loved every chapter! I particularly found what was said about intellectual disability illuminating. On a sillier and superficial note, I like normalcy over pathology paradigm, sounds better and hits harder, and like a punk band name or something lol

Palantir are able to embrace employing neurodivergents because neoliberal neurodiversity inclusion logic fits neatly with their far right techno-feudalist politics. This is the same productivist inclusion logic being embraced in most big businesses (universities, banks, etc.).

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I realise this is more about scientific research but becoming more aware of this is why I haven't worked on things like epistemic justice for many years, as the same logic applies.

@drrobertchapman.bsky.social hi, i wanted to say i was thrilled seeing Pedagogy of the Oppressed in Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction and I love how it was represented here: ‘preparing students to conform to an unjust society just reproduces injustice’

Among the many bad things (and obvious giveaways) about AI writing is that it makes everyone sound more like a white middle-class class American essayist.

For me, models of disability are not theories, they do not consist in claims about the world that can be true or false. Rather, they are like different sets of glasses or filters you can use to accentuate different aspects or relations, for different practical purposes.

You can view the whole lineup so far for the Autistic Mental Health Conference here, come check it out and join us! neurohubcommunity.org/2026-autisti...

"Autistic workers in our study experienced persistent pressure to survive, particularly under conditions of stigma that positions them as “outsiders within” and neuronormativity that shapes the social, cognitive, and sensory environments of contemporary workplaces" academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

Aftab's critique of the NYT article is right, but having spent years working on the far right links with critical psychiatry, and facing backlash including legal threats to get my work taken down, it is good to see the links more recognised in the mainstream. open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft...

Reading @drrobertchapman.bsky.social's Empire of Normality, and it strikes me that a lot of Pentecostal/Charismatic churches utilize very Capitalistic business structures - wonder if there is any significant work out there testing for a link with "deliverance ministry" pushed on Neurodiverse folk?

What a way to end his political career. www.themirror.com/news/uk-news...

Rupert Lowe's openly far right party won every one of the ten seats they stood for in Great Yarmouth. They seem to have mobilised many people across both class and rural/urban divides, and are using that to test a strategy to use nationally. It won't so work well everywhere but it is concerning.

Wes Streeting is the worst possible person to lead Labour against the Reform surge. I get that zero current Labour MPs have the necessary principle, vision, and ability to connect with voters that would make a decent leader. But even with that said, its hard to think of anyone worse.

How we ended up low paid manual workers (if we are "lucky") is because the education system failed us and still fails neurodivergent working class kids.

The biggest fools in all this were the liberal centrists pundits who thought that when MAGA said they were “waging war on woke” that they all had a shared definition of “woke” (basically trans people and critics of US Empire), but it turns that “woke” includes liberalism (and science).

Why does it look like Rachel Reeves is officiating a wedding between Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown

I wrote about neurodivergent class politics and disparities across different sectors. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

A good article on blue collar manual workers and Neurodiversity @drrobertchapman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

Trying to realistically explain what "Ant and Dec" is to an Amercian is not really possible, or so I have found.

The local Reform candidate is called Billy Hill so he is listed as "Hill, Billy".

Vote!

A great discussion about autism, education, liberation & social justice at the joint book launch for “Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction” (@academic.oup.com) by former Fellow @drrobertchapman.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social and “It Takes All Kinds of Minds” (@routledgebooks.bsky.social)

I think its a good sign that the worst thing the right wing media can dig up on zack polanski is that once he made a minor mischaracterisation of his relationship to a charity when he was applying for a new role. If anything it makes him more relatable.

If academics don't always respond to your emails this is why!

Social media algorithms are deeply neuronormative in that different ways of presenting, communication, affectively relating, etc. are favoured or disfavoured, meaning different people do or don't succeed depending on how they fit. In an age of social media the material impacts of that can be huge.

Always important to remember that being good at algorithm hustling (saying things in a ways that gets lots of likes etc.) is not the same as being correct or even knowledgeable.

The way the media publishes antisemitic caricatures of Zack Polanski while claiming that he is the one promoting antisemitism: the cruelty and obviousness of the double standards is part of the point, designed to disempower and manufacture hopelessness. I don't think its working very well though.

Do I know anyone who has successfully ran and obtained funding for a UK social enterpirse (CIC) and who'd be happy to talk about this soon?

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Antisemitism and Jewish safety is not some abstract concept for me. In fact, in the last 6 weeks alone 2 people have been arrested in relation to antisemitic actions towards me and yesterday the Times newspaper published a vile antisemitic cartoon.."

Been wondering this. Its not just that the lay offs and lack of jobs will drive more people to independent research but also that the shift towards feudal structures based around external funding is already stifling the possibility of critical and innovative research inside universities.

Amazing thread, and touches on something I've noticed amid mass movement of fringe reactionary online spaces into mainstream online/irl sociopolitical discourse. Ppl discuss incels and terfs, but fewer discuss the way explicily pro-ana social norms have infiltrated the mainstream. (ed talk below)

There must be an infinite amount of possible accents but for some reason i find it impossible to imagine one that i haven't already heard.

One chapter away from finishing my next book. I think probably the best thing I've written so far. Its on health fascism.

Last week there I saw a couple of copies of Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality were scudding around the CRAE office (and today I see it at half price). www.plutobooks.com/p... #CRAEisReading

Ooh, 50% off all books at @plutopress.bsky.social this month! This would be a good time to buy @crisortunity.bsky.social's Badvertising, for example, or @drrobertchapman.bsky.social's Empire of Normality. www.plutobooks.com/product-cate...