Never felt such solidarity + belonging in conference space than at the first ever Critical Neurodiversity Studies conf this week @durhamimh.bsky.social, amongst the many incredible independent scholars, artists and activists building up this field. so tired! so inspired! longer reflections to come!!

the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference @durhamimh.bsky.social starts tomorrow! Wishing I could attend literally every talk/panel/workshop. I’ll be speaking about why critical media studies is essential to a critical turn in neurodiversity studies - catch me on the Digital panel tomorrow 🤸!

Do this! Couldn't be a way to make it easier!

got a room full of people laughing about network graphs last week at the @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase - who knew! Thanks to @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social and all my co-presenters for a fantastic evening ☺️ 📸Daniel McGowan Photography

en route Edinburgh to share my work on ✨neuroqueer network analysis✨ at @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase tomorrow night! Tickets here 👇 www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

A vital look into the digital, collective origins of 'neuroqueer' - stretching all the way back to autistic Usenet forums in the early 00s. Internet history is so crucial to critical neurodiversity studies! Asks: what might a neuroqueer citation politics look like?

Papers, videos, visual art, zines! - this is gonna be something special CFP Neurodiversity special issue - Towards a Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences Abstracts deadline 3rd Aug 25 journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Governments own research on whats triggered the increase in PIP claims found its mainly from health deterioration and needing more support, with many told about it by health professionals or the dwp itself - not social media www.gov.uk/government/p...

On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies. Solidarity 💜 goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

I'm a member of the @disconetwork.bsky.social Affiliate Program 2025! So far loving being part of such a radical and fun group of researchers - meet us here 👇 www.disconetwork.org/affiliates

We’ve literally JUST had Neurodiversity Celebration Week. To raise awareness, to celebrate difference, to help make neurodivergent lives better And then we get this from a national newspaper. Wow, just wow

First chapter of @disconetwork.bsky.social’s Technoskepticism offers the clearest, most radically compassionate articulation of “TikTok diagnoses” I’ve read so far Dare to diagnose yourself, again and again; brazenly say what your bodymind tells you; afford yourself space to be believed + cared for

labour’s benefit cuts look to be explicitly targeted at neurodivergent folk - despite the long-touted statistic that ~80% of diagnosed UK autistic adults are unemployed. neurodiversity is a class issue, now more than ever www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

kishonna gray and @haimson.bsky.social in conversation about trans technologies -- tech that is made by & for the trans community to serve their needs! oliver is talking abt how queer & trans & gnc folks are, often, AI haters and prioritize tech that foregrounds care, community, and liberation

More excited than ever to get my hands on a copy of Trans Technologies after @haimson.bsky.social’s talk today. Thanks for answering my question, and for letting those of us outside the US dial in! (brb thinking about how technological trans care might be entangled w/ neuroqueer digital practices…)

I’ve had such a warm welcome to @unisouthampton.bsky.social this month! Highlight had to be this zine-making workshop for LGBT PGRs, surrounded by the brilliantly curated Glitchy Kinship exhibition from @lizziereed.bsky.social and @miloustella.bsky.social at WSA Gallery ⛓️‍💥✨

Currently searching for organisations/support groups/outreach initiatives/networks for young people in the UK who are both queer and neurodivergent - and I'm coming up empty! bluesky hivemind, any recommendations?

task-switching from literally anything into writing mode, the boss level of my adhd experience

Myself & @rachelbayer.bsky.social are organising an @rgsibg.bsky.social panel session on Asexual Geographies! Read the Call for Papers and submit an abstract here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

With the looming TikTok ban and Meta axing fact-checking, the internet's future is looking bleaker by the day. Wrote about it and more in this week's #WIREDPoliticsLab newsletter www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

What a dream of a CFP @ndhumanities.bsky.social! ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months. Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.

airport security is the ninth circle of autistic hell

#BIPOC voices are often missing from autistic spaces, so here is a BIPOC starter pack! 😊 go.bsky.app/TtXfpAt #racialequality #antiracism The image of autism as “only white boys” leads to underdiagnosis, discrimination & isolation for many Our autistic community is much more diverse than that! ❤️

Yet another high-profile white man to publicly claim neurodivergence in attempt to excuse his horrendous behaviour Deficit narratives of autism are, in fact, extremely helpful if you want to cast yourself as a victim rather than the people you harm

Have not been able to stop thinking about this article ever since I found it, in my rabbit-hole journey this year into links between tech development and autism research Emotion AI - computing that recognises facial expressions- was developed from "emotional hearing aids" built for autistic kids. !

every year i can't help remembering that one tweet circa 2021 that made us all realise Wrapped season is just cutesified algorithmic surveillance

Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*. This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it

bye bye twitter, hello blue place 🦋 I'm a 2nd year PhD looking at how young people use digital platforms to challenge neuro-heteronormativity. I think a lot about neuroqueering, queer uses, autistic liberation and how we think about algorithms. Would love to find followers with similar interests!