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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How would literary/cultural studies look if neurodivergent ways of knowing were treated as foundational? @autisticrealms.bsky.social and @betskyyy.bsky.social explore essays that occupy neurominority positions as 'productive sites of embodied meaning-making'. thepolyphony.org/2026/09/11/r...

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A ‘Neurodivergent Turn’: Review of ‘Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture’

This essay collection refuses to ‘reduce neurodiversity to a pathologised object of clinical study or passive trope in literature’, say Betsy Selvam and Helen Edgar.

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 26/06/2026

Disability support systems are being dismantled on every front. Meanwhile, for every $10 in U.S. grantmaking, only about one penny goes to disability. Thank you @arianagrande and @brighterdaysaheadfdn for seeing us and helping us. stimpunks.org/2026/06/26/a... Art: @rain_mosh

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Ariana Grande, Brighter Days Ahead, Stimpunks, and the Future of Philanthropy

Ariana Grande and the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation are supporting Stimpunks. The Brighter Days Ahead Foundation works to strengthen vulnerable communities by providing direct support to small…

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betskyyy.bsky.social @betskyyy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

My research article "Neuroqueer Embodiment and Nomadic Subjectivity in Autistic Life Writing" is now published in BMJ's Medical Humanities :) mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

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betskyyy.bsky.social @betskyyy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

My first research article. Interpreting how personal and communal narrative strands intertwine to produce a polyphonic braid of autistic identity and experience. © Common Ground Research Networks, Authors, All Rights Reserved. Permissions: support@cgnetworks.org cgscholar.com/publishers/a...

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Braided Narrative Strands in Autistic Life Writing: Reading Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline as Métissage

Critical autism studies is an interdisciplinary field that challenges traditional medical perspectives on autism. In this field, autistic life writing plays an integral role, as it foregrounds autisti...

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betskyyy.bsky.social @betskyyy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Got this in the mail this week! Delighted to see this issue in print. Check out NIB's open access issue on neurodiversity to read my essay (alongside other insightful articles and commentaries on neurodiversity)! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

An academic journal called NIB: Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics is held by a hand against a brown background

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Turtle @turtle4life.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This is why I keep returning to the makerspace. Losing myself in the creative flow is therapy for my weary mind. The socially prescribed method of talking to a kind stranger 1 hour a week does *nothing*. Its sole benefit is placating medical doctors ignorant of autistic adult lives and needs.

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Joining @stimpunks.org Seeds of Cope! Art as a Therapeutic Tool by @betskyyy.bsky.social Letting go of expectations of how we 'should' rest can be really cathartic. Flow can help you cope & support burnout recovery. 'Art opens up space for healing & a way of reclaiming your own narrative.'

Abstract art. Text reads: The arts are not a way to make a living.

They are a very human way
of making life more bearable.

Practicing an art, no matter how
well or badly, is a way to make
your soul grow.

- Kurt Vonnegut

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