It feels very good to have completed my MA in Critical Autism Studies at Edge Hill. A wonderful and transformational experience.

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Counter-cartographies How to remake the world with neurodivergence at its heart What if we embraced neurodivergent ways of being not as deviations to be corrected but as vital way...

My book, Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance, is now available from the University of Minnesota Press. www.upress.umn.edu/978151790903... #neurodivergence #criticalautismstudies #autism #performancestudies #deligny #fernanddeligny

🚫 No more "superpowers" narrative! Neurodivergence isn't a trendy brand or productivity hack. It's complex, intersectional lived experience. Centering marginalized voices is THE way forward. 💪 #CriticalAutismStudies

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#NDGlossary: #CriticalAutismStudies - An interdisciplinary field that challenges traditional views of autism, emphasizing neurodiversity and autistic voices. It explores societal, cultural, and political dimensions while advocating for the rights and representation of autistic individuals.

Critical Autism Studies: The State of the Field In this essay, I attempt to define critical autism studies and to provide a brief survey of some of the major work done in this field so far. I hope my discussion gives a sense of the robust strength ...

"What we (think we) know about autism—the so-called facts—are difficult to dislodge or disentangle from the social and discursive worlds in which they are embedded” --Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini (2013)

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Redefining critical autism studies: a more inclusive interpretation Learn more

Reminder: "autistic persons are integral for autism studies scholarship to have epistemological integrity (...)" (R. Woods et al., 2018). More details on this reference here 👇
autidacts.org/en/pg-ref/244
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