This page was last updated on 8 February 2016 for the first time since 1 January 2014. I'm currently in the process of totally overhauling it. (Feb. 2016). Updated again 1 Oct. 2016.
This page is constantly growing and expanding to reflect the dynamic nature of my activism and scholarship. For the moment, it is divided by particular types of materials, with links to resources accessible online. In the future, I may include brief commentary or explanatory notes, rearrange the segments, or add sub-sections addressing particular topics. If you know of a resource that would make an excellent addition to this page, please let me know at lydia@autistichoya.com.
Note: I've categorized these with what makes the most sense, but I also recognize that categories are limiting and don't always capture the many nuances of a particular thing.
Ableism
Autism & Autistic Culture
Classism
Doing Activism / Praxis (rather than theory)
Fat Justice / Sizeism
Feminism / Gender / Misogyny
Institutions
Language
Work (for and non-profit)
Uncategorized
Temporarily Uncategorized Articles
This page is constantly growing and expanding to reflect the dynamic nature of my activism and scholarship. For the moment, it is divided by particular types of materials, with links to resources accessible online. In the future, I may include brief commentary or explanatory notes, rearrange the segments, or add sub-sections addressing particular topics. If you know of a resource that would make an excellent addition to this page, please let me know at lydia@autistichoya.com.
Note: I've categorized these with what makes the most sense, but I also recognize that categories are limiting and don't always capture the many nuances of a particular thing.
Ableism
- Autism and the Complication of the Disability/Impairment Binary by Dani Alexis Ryskamp
- Being My Friend Does Not Make You A Hero by Karin Hitselberger
- Clinically Significant Disturbance: On Theorists Who Theorize Theory of Mind by Melanie Yergeau
- Confession Of A Woman In A Refrigerator (Speech Without A Title 2.0) by Julia Bascom
- Don't be a hero by Sea Change Ripples
- Don't Mourn For Us by Jim Sinclair
- The helper personality scares me... by Kassiane Sibley
- If You Like It Then You Shoulda Put a Paycheck On It: My Real Problem With The Mighty (#CrippingTheMighty) by Dani Alexis Ryskamp
- I'm Not Your Fodder For A Feel Good Story: People With Disabilities & The Assumption That Friendship Is Charity by The Squeaky Wheelchair
- Is a glass ceiling preventing you from reaching the top? Try getting into a glass elevator. by Emily Wolinski (Crippled Bitch)
- Mental Age Theory Is Creepy, The End by Feminism, Disability, and Daleks
- Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability by Mia Mingus
- My Child With a Disability Is Not My Hero by Sarah Sweatt Orsborn
- On Being "Ugly Disabled" by Cara Leibowitz
- This Is What Disability Binarism Looks Like by Cara Leibowitz
- "We Just Can't Have You Here" by Rachel Williams
- We're not here for your inspiration by Stella Young
Abuse (Emotional, Medical, Physical, Sexual, Spiritual)
- 9 Ways to Be Accountable When You’ve Been Abusive by Kai Cheng Thom
- ABA by Sparrow Rose Jones
- Bullying is abuse, and abuse has no perks by Shain M. Neumeier
- Here, try on some of my shoes. by Kassiane Sibley
- The other story from a 'Pillow Angel' by Anne McDonald
- Quiet Hands by Julia Bascom
- Spiritual Molestation In Chick-fil-A by Hugh Hollowell
- Would You Accept This Behavior Towards a Non-Autistic Child? by Heidi LoStracco
Adoption
Ageism / Elder Justice / Youth Rights
- Racism Within the Transracial Adoption Community by Paula Fitzgibbons
- Recognizing Each Other: Adoptees of Color (video and transcript) by Mia Mingus, Mariama Lockington, and So Yung Kim
Ageism / Elder Justice / Youth Rights
- Ableism and Ageism in One Tidy Little Package by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
- Ageism: A Pillar of Ableism by Kathleen Nicole O'Neal
A/Sexuality
- Dating from the Margins: Desexualizing and Cultural Abuse by gudbuy t'jane
- Disability and Asexuality by Kaz (formerly Zailyn)
- I’m Gonna Need You to Fight Me On This: How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD by Mac McClelland
- Know Me Where It Hurts: Sex, Kink, and Cerebral Palsy by Carrie
- Reconnecting Disability and Asexuality by Lydia Brown (yes, that's me; no, it's not on this blog)
- Relationship Anarchy Basics by The Thinking Asexual
- This Is What Sex Ed for the Intellectually Disabled Looks Like by Monica Heisey
- What's R(Ace) Got To Do With It? by Alok Vaid-Menon
Autism & Autistic Culture
- A long, sad story about the attitudes that Autism Speaks propagates, and an encounter with a spokesperson "autism dad" by Amythest Schaber
- Autistics Speaking Day 2012 by Sparrow Jones
- Cultural Commentary: Being Autistic Together by Jim Sinclair
- Meltdown Bingo: Autistic Edition by Shain M. Neumeier
- Reclaiming Memory: Searching for Great-Aunt Sarah by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
- This Is Autism by Nick Walker
- Who Can Call Themselves Autistic? by A. M. Baggs, Phil Schwarz, Joel Smith, and Laura Tisoncik
Classism
- The Queer Poor Aesthetic by Shak'ar Mujukian
- Stupidity "Deconstructed" by Joe Kadi (published under former name)
- All right, we need to talk about nonprofit salaries by Vu Le
- Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva
- The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino
- Wherever You Are Is Where I Want To Be: Crip Solidarity by Mia Mingus
Doing Activism / Praxis (rather than theory)
- 10 Principles of Disability Justice: A Working Draft by Patricia Berne
- 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets by Piper Anderson, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ejeris Dixon, Ro Garrido, Emi Kane, Bhavana Nancherla, Deesha Narichania, Sabelo Narasimhan, Amir Rabiyah, and Meejin Richart
- Are you or your org guilty of Trickle-Down Community Engagement? by Vu Le
- Trickle-Down Community Engagement, part 2: The infantilization of marginalized communities must stop by Vu Le
- Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable by Ngọc Loan Trần
- “Call Out Culture” and Effectiveness: On Accountability, Dragging Your Faves, and Transformative Growth by Ashleigh Shackelford
- Dear White and Other Privileged Friends: or, Toward a Pedagogy of Unlearning by Alok Vaid-Menon
- Dear White Protestors by Tam
- On The Difference Between Trigger Warnings And Content Notes, And How Harm Reduction Is Getting Lost In The Confusion by s.e. smith
- Hot Allostatic Load by Porpentine (Porpentine Charity Heartscape)
- How to be an Ally to Disabled & Neurodiverse Folks in Activist & Academic Communities by Lee Lyubov
- How To Talk To Someone About Privilege Who Doesn’t Know What That Is by Jamie Utt
- How Telling Each Other To 'Google It' Hurts Our Movements by Princess Harmony
- How White LGBTQ People Can Be More Inclusive of People of Color by Jarune Uwujaren
- If It's Not Accessible, Who Is It For? by Sam Dylan Finch
- The Last Acceptable Prejudice by s.e. smith
- Self Care and Leaving the Movement by France Francois
- The Subtle Racism of "Post-Racial" Activism by Mattias "Gentleman Gustaf" Lehman
- To my white male Facebook friends by Cera Byer
- Using Black People Stuff In Your Activism: A How To by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Fat Justice / Sizeism
- 21 Things to Stop Saying Unless You Hate Fat People by Issa Waters
- A request from your fat friend: what I need when we talk about bodies. by Your Fat Friend
- Fat People and Tax Dollars by Ragen Chastain
- What happens when you call your fat friend beautiful. by Your Fat Friend
- What it's like to be that fat person sitting next to you on the plane. by Your Fat Friend
- What's Wrong With Fat-Shaming? by Lesley Kinzel
- A Feminist Freak: What Sex and Politics Look Like by The Negress
- How Is Gender Used? by Lindsey
- How Mainstream Feminism Continues to Perpetuate Ableism (And How We Can Change That) by Sara Whitestone
- When Men on the Left Refuse to See Their Sexism by Mast Qalander
Intersectionality
- Addressing the Criminalization of Disability from a Disability Justice Framework: Centring The Experiences of Disabled Queer Trans Indigenous and People of Colour by Abla Abdelhadi
- All of me: how do I know where blackness ends and neurodivergence begins? by Morénike Giwa Onaiwu
- Mother/Activist, Kerima Çevik, Tells Why Police Crisis/Disability Training Is Not The Answer by Leroy Moore interviewing Kerima Çevik
- On Ableism within Queer Spaces, or, Queering the "Normal" by Edward Ndopu and Darnell L. Moore
- Pro Choice Should NOT Mean Ableist by Elsa S. Henry
- What racial, disability and LGBTQ justice have in common by Corinne Segal featuring Kay Ulanday Barrett
- Who Gets To Be Human in Death?: Leelah Alcorn and Trans Legacies by Eunbyul Lee
- Why I'm Leaving Feminism by s.e. smith
Institutions
- Critic of the Dawn by Cal Montgomery
- "I don't know that person's program." by Mel Baggs
Language
- Deconstructing "Stupid" by Michael Scott Monje, Jr.
- Disease Is Not A Metaphor by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
- Domestic Hate Murder Coverage Style Guide by Zoe Gross
- I Know I Don't Need To. I Choose To. by Alyssa Hillary
- Killing Words by Zoe Gross
- Why This “High-Functioning” Autistic Really Wishes You’d Shut Up About High-Functioning Autistics by Dani Alexis Ryskamp
Neurodiversity
- The Future (and the Past) of Autism Advocacy, Or Why the ASA's Magazine, The Advocate, Wouldn't Publish This Piece by Ari Ne'eman
- Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms and Definitions by Nick Walker
- Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm by Nick Walker
- You don't speak for Low-functioning autistics by Lysik'an
Prisons
Queerness
- "It Can’t Be Fixed Because It’s Not Broken: Racism and Disability in the Prison Industrial Complex" by Syrus Ware, Joan Ruzsa, and Giselle Dias
- Shackles--up close and painful by K.S.
- Why prisons don’t work and how we can do better — A conversation with Maya Schenwar by Victoria Law
Queerness
- Queer Rage by Janani Bala, Alok Vaid-Menon, and Cam Awkward-Rich
- Young, Queer, and Homeless by Hannah Le
Racism / White Supremacy
- Dear Abigail Fisher: I'm A Black Girl Who Didn't Get Into UT And I Didn't Sue by Victoria Uwumarogie
- The do’s, don’ts, maybes, and I-don’t-knows of cultural appropriation by âpihtawikosisân
- The Elephant In the Racialised Room: The Conundrum of Black-Arabness by Bedour Alagraa
- George Zimmerman and the Benefits of White Privilege by Keith Brekhus
- How To Be Black In America: A (Relatively) Short List by Mia McKenzie
- How to Uphold White Supremacy by Focusing on Diversity and Inclusion by Kẏra
- Majoring in English by Monica Torres
- My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK by Kiese Laymon
- An Open Letter to Non-Natives in Headdresses by âpihtawikosisân
- They Pretend To Be Us While Pretending We Don’t Exist by Jenny Zhang
- The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy by Yawo Brown
- Tim Wise & The Failure of Privilege Discourse by R.L. Stephens II
- We are NOT all Trayvon: Challenging Anti-Black Racism in POC Communities by Asam Ahmad
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
- The White-Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole
- Why appropriating the burqa-clad woman is not cool by xcwn (A Sober Second Look)
Work (for and non-profit)
- 6 Things To Do If Your Social Justice Job is a Toxic Environment by Laura Kacere
- All right, we need to talk about nonprofit salaries by Vu Le
- When the Boss says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid' by Jonathan Timm
- When you don’t disclose salary range on a job posting, a unicorn loses its wings by Vu Le
Uncategorized
- What to do when you're not the hero any more by Laurie Penny
Temporarily Uncategorized Articles
The Comedy that Kills Us by Lester Andrist
Dear “Autism Parents”, by Julia Bascom
Emotional discussions by Chavisory
Making everything clear by Mel Baggs
Nickels, Dimes and 'High-Functioning' Autism by Todd Drezner
The Prophets of Oak Ridge by Dan Zak
Systems Theory and Autism Speaks by CD/EM
The roots of global anti-Americanism by Murtaza Hussain
There is blood on your hands. by Kassiane Sibley
Blogs
a diary of a mom by Jess
AS Parenting by Melody Latimer
Aspie Rhetor by Melanie Yergeau
AutismRocks by Marsupial Mama
The Autism Wars by Kerima Çevik
Cracked Mirror in Shalott by Savannah Nicole Logsdon
Emma's Hope Book by Ariane Zurcher
Illusionof Competence by Zoe Gross
Mama Be Good by Brenda Rothman
Neurotribes by Steve Silberman
Priscilla
Gilman (eponymous)
Square8 by Bev Harp
WeirdLaw by Twitchy Woman
Where’s Lulu? by Caitlin and Toshio
WhosePlanet Is It Anyway? by Autistic Bitch From Hell
Yes, That Too by Alyssa
Organizations/Online
Not Dead Yet
Out of Order Philadelphia: Queer Disability Justice Project
Parenting Autistic Children with Love & Acceptance (PACLA)
Out of Order Philadelphia: Queer Disability Justice Project
Parenting Autistic Children with Love & Acceptance (PACLA)
Queerability
Second Thoughts: People with Disabilities Opposing the Legalization of Assisted Suicide
Second Thoughts: People with Disabilities Opposing the Legalization of Assisted Suicide
Books
A Disability History of the United
States: ReVisioning American History by Kim E. NielsenAbnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975 (Lectures at the College de France) by Michel Foucault
The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy by Priscilla Gilman
Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Supporting Children and Adults with Complex Communication Needs by David Beukelman, Pat Mirenda, Kathryn Garrett, and Janice Light
Autism and Representation by Mark Osteen (Ed.)
Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone by Douglas Biklen (Ed.)
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit
Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability Studies in the University Classroom and Curriculum by Liat Ben-Moshe, Rebecca C. Cory, Mia Feldbaum and Ken Sagendorf (Eds.)
Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity by Simi Linton
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer
The Critical Limits of Embodiment: Reflections on Disability Criticism by Carol A. Breckenridge and Candace Vogler (Eds.)
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law by Marcia H. Rioux, Lee Ann Basser and Melinda Jones
Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness by D.B. Double (Ed.)
Cultural Locations of Disability by Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell
Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Disability and the Politics of Education by Scot Danforth and Susan L. Gabel
Disability, Hate Crime and Violence by Alan Roulstone and Hannah Mason-Bish
Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory by Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare (Eds.)
The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation by Doris Fleischer and Frieda Zames
Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back by Harilyn Rousso
Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture by James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson (Eds.)
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Lennard J. Davis
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare
Feminist Disability Studies by Kim Q. Hall (Ed.)
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
Foucault and the Government of Disability by Shelley Lynn Tremain (Ed.)
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson (Ed.)
History of Madness by Michel Foucault
Illness As Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking by Julia Bascom (Ed.)
Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price
Madness: A Brief History by Roy Porter
The manufacture of madness: A comparative study of the inquisition and the mental health movement by Thomas Stephen Szasz
Mental Illness in Popular Media: Essays on the Representation of Disorders by Lawrence C. Rubin
My Body Politic: A Memoir by Simi Linton
The myth of mental illness: foundations of a theory of personal conduct by Thomas Stephen Szasz
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependence of Discourse by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
Neurodiversity in Higher Education: Positive Responses to Specific Learning Differences by David Pollak
New Directions in Special Education: Eliminating Ableism in Policy and Practice by Thomas Hehir
No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement by Joseph P. Shapiro
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment by James I. Charlton
The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering by Melanie Thernstrom
The Panic Virus: The True Story behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy by Seth Mnookin
Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen, and Other Photographic Rhetoric by Robert Bogdan
The Politics of Neurodiversity: Why Public Policy Matters by Dana Lee Baker
Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption: On the Meaning of Family and the Politics of Neurological Difference by Ralph James Savarese
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability by Susan Wendell
Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination by Stuart Murray
Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media by Beth A. Haller
Semiotics and Disability: Interrogating Categories of Difference by Linda J. Rogers and Beth Blue Swadener (Eds.)
Sex and Disability by Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow (Eds.)
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir Puar
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism: What You Really Need to Know about Autism, from Autistics, Parents, and Professionals by Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Jennifer Byde Myers, Liz Ditz and Emily Willingham (Eds.)
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life by Harriet McBryde Johnson
The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan Schweik
Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker
Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities: The End of Silent Acceptance? by Dick Sobsey
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability by Paul K. Longmore
Film
Including Samuel
Lives Worth Living
Loving Lampposts: Living Autistic
Wretches & Jabberers
Citizen Autistic
Who cares about Kelsey?
Who cares about Kelsey?
