While researching intersectionality for this podcast, as well as for my own studies, I came across a 2022 article from academics Monique Both and Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, called ‘Come As You Are: examining autistic identity development and the Neurodiversity Movement through an Intersectional lens’. It encapsulates everything I wish to say about this area, and includes many enlightening concepts and ideas that hadn’t occurred to me. For that reason, I will read out extracts from this article that will make up the bulk of this episode. The writing is pretty straightforward, and includes wonderfully simple explanations of some complex concepts, making it available for anyone interested in the intersecting identities with autism, not just to academic researchers. I will include some additional reading suggestions at the end for anyone who might want to explore these ideas more fully in their own time.
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References:
Botha, M. and Gillespie-Lynch, K. (2022) 'Come as You Are: Examining Autistic Identity Development and the Neurodiversity Movement through an Intersectional Lens', Human Development, 66(2), pp. 93-112.
Additional Reading Suggestions:
Ahmed, S. (2017) Living a feminist life. 1 edn. Durham, [North Carolina];London, [England];: Duke University Press.
Annamma, S. A., Connor, D. and Ferri, B. (2013) 'Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit): theorising at the intersections of race and dis/ability', Race, ethnicity and education, 16(1), pp. 1-31.
Iwasa, M. et al. (2022) 'Twenty‐year longitudinal birth cohort study of individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder before seven years of age', Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 63(12), pp. 1563-1573.
Lewis, C. J. and Arday, J. (2023) 'We’ll see things they’ll never see: Sociological reflections on race, neurodiversity and higher education', The Sociological review (Keele), 71(6), pp. 1299-1321.
Lovelace, T. S. et al. (2022) 'Missing from the Narrative: A Seven-Decade Scoping Review of the Inclusion of Black Autistic Women and Girls in Autism Research', Behavior analysis in practice, 15(4), pp. 1093-1105.
Smith, J. et al. (2022) 'They were Saying that I was a 'typical Chinese mum': Chinese Parents' Experiences of Parent-Teacher Partnerships for Their Autistic Children', Journal of autism and developmental disorders, pp. 1-13.
Steinbrenner, J. R. et al. (2022) 'Patterns in reporting and participant inclusion related to race and ethnicity in autism intervention literature: Data from a large-scale systematic review of evidence-based practices', Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 26(8), pp. 2026-2040.