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)

Prisons are turning to mail scanning in what they claim to be an effort to combat drug smuggling. But don't let them fool you: Mail scanning is inhumane & ineffective. "If DoCs want to stop drugs in prison, they need to expand treatment." More from @phillipvancesmith2.bsky.social👇

Language is the brick that builds the walls. Language is also the brick that can be thrown at these walls in pursuit of fairer presents and futures.

Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images. The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.

Comrades in Ireland, I'll be speaking about neurodiversity and capitalism at Rupture Radical Bookfair in Dublin on May 30th. Not sure what time yet but the book fair is on 12 to 5 at the Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin.

Understanding reduces harm As Stress Awareness Month ends, take time to learn: ✔ What Autistic burnout is ✔ How to recognise meltdowns & shutdowns ✔ How trauma shows up in Autistic people Explore NdC resources: ndconnection.co.uk/resources/nd... #StressAwarenessMonth #AutismSupport

Why stop at teaching kids about housing issues - schools should also be giving pupils a grounding in their human rights.

Same.

Sudan’s war has become the 21st century’s worst humanitarian crisis. 😢

Free Epistemic Injustice workshop next week for social researchers interested in or already using it as a conceptual framework and keen to explore it more and learn about alternatives. Tues 14 April, 7pm London time via Zoom. See you there? #QualitativeResearch #ParticipatoryResearch #AcademicSky

“we found that 78% of authors (of studies on ABA) had a conflict of interest (COI) Some worked in ABA clinics, some offered paid consulting to other ABA providers, and some did both Almost all papers (93%) had at least one author with these kinds of connections.” 🫠 #AutRes

If you’ve ever felt unseen by systems, misunderstood by language, or caught between identities - this episode is for you. www.hidden20.org/podcast/ward...

Amoco, now part of BP, never cleaned up after its failed oil prospecting mission. Rural Kenyans are suing for a right to a clean environment.

Posting this thing i wrote again since a lot of people are calling trump mad or insane right now and that's still obscuring far more than it reveals. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

Happy #fridayreads! Y'all, with the loss of income I could especially use your support of my books. Here's my novel: bookshop.org/p/books/none... And my novella: bookshop.org/p/books/fes-... I think y'all need to take a journey with these in your minds. Free your minds & the rest will follow.

Thank you so much to those of you who came along to Tuesday night's panel discussion on Transcription for Racial Justice, and even bigger thanks to our three fantastic panellists, @elisney.bsky.social, @divyampersaud.com and @wardasworld.bsky.social >

Knowledge isn’t neutral. Who gets heard, recognised, and recorded shapes inequality and injustice. Next week, at the AAT online panel, we’re exploring transcription, captioning & racial justice and their roots in colonial research. Join us: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/transcriptio...

Many of us are torn about going to the US for #AAAL2026. Here's a list 7 things we can do in Chicago to support affected communities, including a list of neighbourhoods that would appreciate those per diem $$$: littlevillagechamber.org/chicagos-imm...

Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

I'm doing some prep for next week's Transcription for Racial Justice panel event (see link in next post) and the various bits of writing I want to produce to promote it and it's given me cause to revisit @saranahmed.bsky.social's fabulous blog. This post on the institutional as usual is just great:

Come join me and @divyampersaud.com, @elisney.bsky.social and @wardasworld.bsky.social next Tuesday 24 March @ 7pm GMT on Zoom to explore how transcription resists or reinforces racial injustice. Tickets cost £7.50 (but half price tix available on request)! Sign up & get more info here:

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Autism is a clinical disability and the neurodiversity movement argues it is *both* a difference *and* a disability. This is part of my life’s work to document & explain, but many mischaracterize our studies (including “Deficit, difference, or both?”) and positions. www.twinkl.co.uk/news/experts...

No workplace technology developed or utilised within capitalism has given us more free time outside of work, even if it allows genuine increases in productivity. Only organsied labour has achieved that. There is no reason, none whatsoever, to think AI will be any different.

Reading an advance copy of White System, Black Therapist by @wardasworld.bsky.social. Cannot recommend it highly enough: for understanding speech therapy, education, colonial institutions, and more. Its so well written and filled with great personal insight theoretical nuance. Preorder and read!

On Tuesday 17th March from 4.00 to 5.15pm, I'll be having a virtual book launch We are keeping the event small so that it can feel more intimate and conversational, which means there will be a limited number of tickets available. Register below www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

1/3 Thanks to Brixton Library for a fabulous tribute to The Brixton Bard, Alex Wheatle, last week. See lambeth_libraries and our insta accounts for the full celebration! Highlights included: 🌟readings of Alex’s work by Nathanael Lessore, Ken Wilson Max, Ramzee, @emilydrabs.bsky.social … #KidLitUK

Here is the upcoming DJ workshop link: accesslovefeb.eventbrite.ca "For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework." 🫂

In anticipation of the Super Bowl this weekend I thought I would reshare my post from when Bad Bunny was first announced as headlining the half time show to remind us that the joy many of us will feel is a reminder of the world we are fighting for. educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/t...

Is #neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?. another eye-opening article I've come across while writing my #neuroqueering digital youth work chapter. Nair, V. K., Farah, W., & Boveda, M. (2024) #Autism, LINK:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13623613241280835

BLACK NEW YORKER: For 2026, Dr. Rashidah Ismaili is proud to be one of the few still carrying the torch from the Black #Arts Movement.

See also: the homophobia baked into the British colonial legacy in Africa www.wearequeeraf.com/the-colonial...

Or consider being born to parents who can give you a role in the family firm? www.ft.com/content/c894...

Probably the most important thing about the increasingly reliance on AI owned by fascist billionaires, is that this reliance will help those owners by causing mass unemployment, in turn leading to further support for the fascist politics and parties that those same billionaires fund and support.

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

🌟 We're looking for a Programming Fellow to develop part of this year’s Refugee Festival Scotland, running 12 - 21 June. The role is a fantastic learning opportunity for an emerging producer or curator interested in the arts and themes of migration. FIND OUT MORE 👉 ow.ly/mwNN50XTjzr

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

And we cannot move towards abolition without this conversation because: The cultural hatred for Black and Brown teens, particularly those who are queer and/or disabled shapes ALL of our discourse on crime.

The police killing of Sonya Massey ignited protests throughout the country. In Illinois, a civilian commission met over the last year to debate changes—holding tense, difficult meetings. This story follows the commission for months—and captures just how agonizing these processes can be. NEW:

the source article for the quote points out a major issue - orthographies for African languages sometimes don't mark tone, in spite of tone being crucial to word meaning! (and tonal pronunciation almost always changes postlexically, too - when you put words together into phrases) 🐦🐦

Protip for good white people: there IS a answer when asked “are you racist?” You simply say: “being born and raised in white supremacy means all of us hold and racialised worldviews. But I am learning about racism and working on changing my worldview and myself.” 1/2

Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62

Hi my new book is already out and shipping! You should have bought it already!

New editorial in @journalautism.bsky.social with @yesthattoo.bsky.social @jordynbzim.bsky.social and @bettyyu.bsky.social where we argue that "nonverbal" and "minimally verbal" are not useful constructs for grouping or describing autistic people. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We were thrilled to meet Warda at the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference last summer and are just as excited for this new, important book.

Are we nurturing a person’s capacity to express their truth or gently steering them toward an institutional ideal of what normal speech/language/communication should be? 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 www.routledge.com/White-System...