Each Friday at NOSmag, I post some links relevant to neurodiversity news and culture criticism around the web. This is what I’ve been reading and that I think you should be reading too. Feel free to add links of your own in the comments and email suggestions for future link roundups to nos.editorial@gmail.com or Tweet us @NOSeditorial.

• Next week, NOS Magazine will cohost a #FilmDis Twitter chat about the hot mess that is Atypical.
• CL Bridge has something important to say on the Autism Women's Network blog: Let autistic people love things.
• Autistic pastor Lamar Hardwick discusses three ways to have a more diverse & disabled church.
• The Trump administration wants to make it harder to sue nursing homes for abuse, neglect, and sexual assault.  Because of course they do.
• A couple in Oregon is fighting to get their kids back. They lost custody solely Continue Reading ››

Each Friday at NOSmag, I’m going to post some links relevant to neurodiversity news and culture criticism around the web. This is what I’ve been reading and that I think you should be reading too. Feel free to add links of your own in the comments and email suggestions for future link roundups to nos.editorial@gmail.com or Tweet us @NOSeditorial.

• The AHCA and planned cuts to Medicaid the GOP is calling for could force a lot of us out of our homes and back into institutions, writes NOS contributor Ari Ne'eman.
• There needs to be more attention paid to black women who have PTSD.
• ADAPT protesters shut down the Capitol Rotunda to protest the AHCA and Medicaid cuts.
• On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court unanimously overturned a 2008 decision Neil Gorsuch wrote on the educational rights of disabled children.
• There are things to love about Julia, … Continue Reading ››

Each Friday at NOSmag, I’m going to post some links relevant to neurodiversity news and culture criticism around the web. This is what I’ve been reading and that I think you should be reading too. Feel free to add links of your own in the comments and email suggestions for future link roundups to nos.editorial@gmail.com or Tweet us @NOSeditorial.

• World Down Syndrome Day is coming up. This cheeky video from European Down syndrome organization CoorDown breaks down why people with Down syndrome don't have "special needs" -- Just needs.
• Lydia Brown spoke about Intersectionality for Beginners.
• A video of Shain Neumeier's talk For Your Own Good: Coercive Care in the Lives of Marginalized People from 2016's Disability and Intersectionality Summit has been released.
• Kit Mead's Psych Ward Reviews has released a cache of data on other reviews and data on quality of services for … Continue Reading ››

Each Friday at NOSmag, I post some links relevant to neurodiversity news and culture criticism around the web. This is what I’ve been reading and that I think you should be reading too. Feel free to add links of your own in the comments and email suggestions for future link roundups to nos.editorial@gmail.com. "We Are Not Burdens and We Don't Deserve to Die": A Disability Day of Mourning Roundtable" featuring NOS editor Sara Luterman, NOS contributor Cara Liebowitz, and bipolar badass Victoria M. Rodríguez-Roldán, among others. Amy Sequenzia rejects the concept of "intelligence," especially when it comes to her and her fellow nonspeaking typists. #CripTheVote is hosting a Twitter chat on March 12 on protecting the ADA. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network has released an action alert to give you the tools you need to help save the ADA and Medicaid. Play Overwatch? Fan favorite Symmetra has been confirmed autistic. … Continue Reading ››