Intersectionality Archives

Culture and Politics, or Why a Neurodiversity Paradigm is Left of Centre

On: April 25, 2020

In: ABA Therapy, Ableism, Acceptance, Activism, Anti-neurodiversity, Autism, Change, Cure talk, Functioning labels, Harmful "advocacy", Intersectionality, Justice, Language, Pathologizing, Perception, Treatments

With: 1 Comment

The way society regards autistics is explored through a political analogy where accommodations for autistics are based on the conservative value of assimilation instead of the progressive value of a cultural mosaic.

A group of girls, standing outside, bullying a young adult woman by calling her out.

Call-Out Culture and Learned Helplessness

By: ItinerantMystic

On: March 25, 2020

In: Autism, Bullying and abuse, Intersectionality, Mental health and trauma

With: 9 Comments

It is those who seize power and control via their continued privileges who often become the spokespeople of a given minority group. Call-out culture needs to be called out because it has become a tool of oppressors.