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 because they are intellectually disabled.
- Rebecca Cokely, a third generation little person and disability advocate, writes about the dangers of CRISPR and genetic engineering.
- Regressive autism isn’t a thing.
- A little about Claws and autistic representation.
- Era Brand is collecting stories about being told one can’t possibly be autistic.
- Let’s talk about nonspeaking characters in science fiction.
- We need to be as good at lifting people up as we are at calling out.
- People in Brooklyn aren’t getting their dogs vaccinated because they are afraid of dog autism. Speak, Autism, Speak!
- Donate money to make a documentary about ADAPT. Help piss on pity.
- We need to talk about domestic abuse of autistic adults.