If a book like mine would be helpful to you or someone you know, or if you'd just like to support me, both Queerly Autistic and it's follow-up, The Queerly Autistic Workbook, are available to buy, individually or as a special discounted bundle: uk.jkp.com/products/the...
Thank you BBC Essex for giving me space to talk about finding out that my book had been banned at a school in Manchester, and @indexoncensorship.org for blowing the whistle.
As someone who grew up during Section 28, I'll never stop fighting for autistic teenagers' right to access books like mine.
I wrote Queerly Autistic as the book I desperately wish I'd had as a young queer autistic person.
I know what it was like trying to figure myself out without access to this sort of information, and how vulnerable that made me.
Knowledge is empowerment - and safety.
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This moral crusade only hurts young people – particularly young autistic people.
They deserve better than this.
We should all be deeply worried about these bans. When we deny young people access to information and knowledge, we are failing to give them the tools they need to safely navigate the world, particularly around identity, sexuality, gender, and sex.
I want to thank ‘Emily’, the librarian at the heart of this story, for your work trying to make sure that your students have access to my book and others. I stand in solidarity with you against the harassment and abuse you have faced from the school.
I will never apologise for the content in Queerly Autistic – particularly the chapter on sex and consent. This is the book I needed when I was younger. Many autistic young people, autistic adults, parents, and professionals, have told me how vital a resource it has been.
Education on sex and sexuality is not a bad thing. It’s knowledge, and knowledge is power.
It’s vital that autistic young people have access to clear, easy-to-understand information on sex, sexuality and consent, so they can safely figure out their own identities whilst being able to clearly identify abuse.
I wrote Queerly Autistic as a guide for autistic young people. It includes clear and concise information on sex, what forms sex can take, and consent. Autistic people are more likely to identify as LGBTQIA+. They are also more likely to be the victims of exploitation and abuse.
I recently found out, thanks to this investigation by @indexoncensorship.org, that my book, Queerly Autistic, was caught up in a mass book ban in a Greater Manchester school. I’m furious that the librarian, who is autistic, was harassed by the school for providing my book to autistic young people.
Do NOT open your door for any authority unless they have a warrant — from a court, signed by a judge.
NO warrant, NO entry.
If they arrest you, you ALWAYS have the right to remain silent, even if they don’t read you any rights.
The ONLY thing to say: “I want a lawyer.”
Anti-autistic ableism isn't just deadly for autistic people.
When 'tackling the autism epidemic' = systematically attacking vaccines, it means anti-autistic ableism is deadly for all of society.
And you can't push back against that threat without centring the fight against anti-autistic ableism.
I'd also like to mention that THIS is exactly why seemingly proposed plans to cut the Access to Work scheme and put more responsibility on employers to accommodate disabled people will NEVER work.
The doctor who claimed MMR “causes autism” lost his license for falsifying data and also had developed a vaccine to compete with MMR, so he made it up to make money. Don’t come into my mentions with this shit.
They have never cared.
And, like I said, this isn't news to a lot of us. We already knew this.
But it will be an educational and radicalising moment for some, so let it be that.
Do not put your trust in corporations and companies. They aren't here for us.
WE have to be here for us.
I don't care how many times they put up a Pride flag, or kneel, or advertise that they're a disabled friendly employer.
The moment force is removed, or they think they can make a profit without being inclusive, then they will drop all pretence and happily regress, because they DO NOT CARE.
Inclusivity within most corporations has come from one of either two things: force (ie. it's the fucking law) or profit-incentive (ie. they think it benefits their margins and shareholders to appear to be more progressive). But this shit isn't honest, isn't genuine, and it isn't baked in. Ever.
Not that this is news to many of us, but the past few months have really shone fresh light on how corporations are not and will never be on your side.
They have to be forced to be even tepidly progressive and inclusive, and when that force is taken away, they'll drop everyone in an instant.
People will say "what, at a time like this, how is this your biggest issue?" and it's not my biggest thing but it's a small thing you can do in yourself that primes you for noticing things and being a better accomplice and support and community member.
(Regarding the hope that people will stop using ableist takes about evil people.)
How we TALK about people shapes how we TREAT people. If you take it as a given that verbal abuse isn't right, doesn't that reinforce the idea that physical abuse isn't right?
The effect of all the worst, biggest sex pest fuckups on earth claiming autism as an excuse for their dipshittery, will be increased eugenics.
Each time one of these dipshits announces autism as a justification, they cement the public perception of autism as dangerous, antisocial, predatory, etc
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The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
'Access to Work' is a badly administered and bizarrely inaccessible scheme.
It's also one of the only things the UK government does to help disabled people to access work at all.
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Some members of the queer community need to be strongly schooled about the shoulders of the strong and brave trans people upon which they stand. It seems they’re forgetting who they owe so much to.
There will be no trans exclusion or erasure. We will not allow it to happen. We must fight it.
If the government passes the buck back to employers to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees, a proportion of employers will simply and quietly decide they'd rather not bother, and hire someone else
This is bananas. Access to Work is a scheme that specifically helps disabled people work in paid employment.
The minister's comments suggest too many people know about it so it needs paring back - and responsibility shifted to employers, who as we know just lurve more responsibilities
