Art & Reviews

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution Review

sebastianthedude April 9, 2020

A review of the Netflix documentary, Crip Camp, about the disability rights movement, written from the perspective of an autistic person.

Picture of five women, each with unconventional hair and attire, looking simultaneously sexual and child-like.

How the manic pixie dream girl trope harms autistic women

David Gray-Hammond April 8, 2020

These tropes can be frustratingly repetitive, they can also be downright harmful. Of all the basic tropes that grace our screens, few are more concerning than the manic pixie dream girl.

Book cover that reads Rest Easy My Love a bedtime book to be read in the daytime. book for autistic kids children with autism asd on the spectrum

Free eBook for Your Autistic Kids: Rest Easy My Love

Terra Vance April 1, 2020

Neurodivergent children deal with a lot of anxiety. In times of rationing, this book is to help children understand some resources never run out.

Lining Up and Arranging and Color Coding Objects, Oh My!

Gee Abraham March 22, 2020

Lining objects up is a common autistic stim. This piece is a look into an autistic adult’s machinations for lining up, arranging, and color coding items.

Poetry: I Don’t want to hear it, and neither do you

Melissa Simmonds March 16, 2020

Melissa Simmonds with a powerful piece about trying to be heard as a Black, autistic woman and what to do instead of silencing her.

A boy leans against a hall in school, looking sad and alone. To represent autism asperger's autistic on the spectrum in the classroom and school environment. It goes with the poem poetry in this story.

Video: A poem performed through the eyes of an autistic child.

pondersomepete March 11, 2020

Watch this brilliant poetry performance from autistic poet Pete Black about the experience of an autistic student and the less-than-obvious ways children on the autism spectrum are left out or under-supported.

Image features a close up of words on a typewriter. It reads, "It's all in the journey..." Autism on the spectrum autistic aspie asperger's poetry with neuroclastic

Hypnotized by Words

Duane Law March 10, 2020

Words can build a bridge, or a cage. Words can be violent. A price can be put on words. A poem on the power and limits of words to shape whole societies.