Forging Connections

Abram, Nicola

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“…Personal essays, articles, poems, short stories, drawings and photographs collated in such anthologies (e.g. Brown et al, 2016 ; Huxley-Jones, 2020 ; Peña, 2019 ; Sequenzia & Grace, 2015 ) challenge dominant paradigms about autism and other forms of neurodivergence, providing alternative accounts and/or histories of the neurodiversity movement from those directly involved, and incorporating voices and perspectives that might not otherwise be shared ( Abram, 2020 ). Examples include Sinclair’s essays on autistic community-building – both virtually and in person – beginning in the 1990s ( Sinclair in Bascom, 2012 ); experiential and narrative accounts of autism and race ( Brown et al, 2016 ); and critical responses to the medical paradigm by nonspeaking authors and activists ( Peña, 2019 ; Sequenzia & Grace, 2015 ).…”

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Cutting our own keys: New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research

Rosqvist

Botha

Hens

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Autism

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Increasingly, neurodivergent people are sharing their own narratives and conducting their own research. Prominent individuals have integrated the ‘nothing about us without us’ slogan, used by neurodivergent and other disabled social activists, into academia. This article imagines a neuromixed academia. We consider how to work through challenges present in neuromixed encounters; to support cross-neurotype communication and pave the way for an ethos of community and collaboration. We explore how we might create a space in which neurodivergent experiences are seen as just one part of our complex and multifaceted identities. We do this through the process of ‘cutting our own keys’, to try out new possibilities of neurodivergent storying aimed at finding ourselves in our own stories about neurodivergence. This involves borrowing and developing methodological approaches formulated outside of research on different forms of neurodivergence, and to invent our own concepts based on our own embodied experiences and the social worlds we inhabit. Throughout, we mingle our own autoethnographic accounts in relation to research accounts and theories, as a way of illustrating the work with the text as a thinking about neurodivergence with each other in itself. Lay abstract A lot of people who do research are also neurodivergent (such as being autistic or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), but neurodivergent people do not always feel welcome in research spaces which are often shaped around neurotypical people. Some neurotypical researchers lack confidence in talking to neurodivergent people, and others feel like neurodivergent people might not be able to do good research about other people who are like them without being biased. We think it is important that all researchers are able to work well together, regardless of whether they are neurotypical, autistic, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (or any other neurotype) – in truly ‘neurodiverse’ teams. In this article we talk about how to create better spaces for all researchers, where we feel valued for who we are and take each others’ needs into account. We do this using some approaches from other areas of research and talking about how they relate to our personal experiences of being neurodivergent researchers with our own personal stories. This article adds to a growing work on how we can work with people who are different from us, in more respectful and kind ways.

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Cutting our own keys: New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research

Rosqvist

Botha

Hens

et al. 2022

Autism

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Munirah Theatre Company

Abram

2020

Black British Women's Theatre

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“Being / together”: Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other and the Black British Women’s Movement

Abram

2024

Contemporary Women's Writing

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This essay locates Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other (2019) within the sociopolitical history and written lineage of the Black women’s movement in Britain. It identifies contextual resonances with the 1970s and 1980s praxis of collaboration and collectivity and traces intertextual connections with Evaristo’s own early writing (including theater, verse fiction, and the radio story from which the novel evolved) and the periodicals, anthologies, and organization newsletters of the time. These references illuminate the novel’s structure, lineation, and narrative mode. I argue that Girl, Woman, Other reanimates the rallying call “we are here,” affirming the presence and diversity of Black lives in Britain, while its distinctive “fusion fiction” form actively engages readers, realizing the Black feminist political principle of “speaking out.”

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Forging Connections

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Cutting our own keys: New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research

Cutting our own keys: New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research

Munirah Theatre Company

“Being / together”: Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other and the Black British Women’s Movement

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