Resources for Learning and Support

I am deeply committed to learning from as many sources and lived experiences as possible. These books, podcasts, and social media accounts are focused on neurodiversity, disability justice, and general mental health. There is a particular focus on social and cultural factors.

I’ve also included non-carceral US based crisis lines. I frequently update these, so if you have had particularly positive or negative experiences with any of these, reach out!

Books:

● Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

● Disability Visibility by Alice Wong

● The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

● We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health by L.D. Green & Kelechi Ubozoh

● Radical Disability Politics by A.J. Withers and Liat Ben-Moshe with Lydia X. Z. Brown, Loree Erickson, Rachel da Silva Gorman, Talila A. Lewis, Lateef McLeod and Mia Mingus

● All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism Edited by Lydia X. Z. Brown., E. Ashkenazy., and Morenike Giwa Onaiwu

● Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking Edited by Julia Bascom

● Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.

● NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman

● Barking Sycamores. A literary magazine published by and for queer neurodivergent people of color, with N.I. Nicholson as Editor in Chief and V. Solomon Maday as Editor