My aim with this piece is to banish shame in autistic people, so we can all talk about things like this openly - about our strengths, our struggles, and the way even "supports" fail us in an ableist society. I hope writing like this makes other autistic people feel less alone.

This new article is from a very deep, sad part of me. I wrote this article months and months ago for autism awareness month (April) but it's only just been published. This article is about sex, relationships, social expectations, and trying and failing to get help.

www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...

Grounded in the post-WWII German concept of Vergangenheitsbewältigung ("working through the past") and linking this to the idea of truth-telling in Australia, I highlight the importance of knowing our place within history and speaking up about the horrors of the past that are slowly repeating.

As a German-Australian, I’ve been learning the importance of grappling with the past - ABC Religion & Ethics With wars raging and the far-right rising, it’s never been more important to confront the past — whether that’s through the German practice of “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” or the First Nations’ practic...

New from me - and I've already gotten racist hate mail sent to my email because of it.

In this article for the ABC, I reflect personally on the Holocaust and the rise of the far-right in the West.

www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...

#gaza #WWII #history #vergangenheitsbewaeltigung

5/5 Link to read the edition in full: advocacyforinclusion.org/cdr/

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I explain how sexism and ableism are why, as a 31-year-old autistic woman asking for psychosexual therapy, pelvic floor physiotherapy, and a hearing aid, I was denied all three and offered speech therapy and a support worker instead.
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"Choice and control: but for who?"

Honoured to have been approached by Advocacy For Inclusion to write an article for the summer '24 ed. of the Canberra Disability Review.💖🏖️
This article is a vulnerable meditation on the way gender and ableism intersect within the NDIS.

1/5 #ndis #auspol

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Hello! I finally joined Bluesky.
About me:
I'm an autistic writer and activist. I write about disability, trauma, grief, and animals. PhD candidate at UOW writing a thesis in crit. animal studies/disability studies. Also writing a memoir about autistic shame.
www.elenafilipczyk.com/published-work