Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups

Quick note: we're starting 3.30pm UK today!! That's in about 30min. And we'll have a short meeting

This new DSQ's special issue on Mad Methods really fits with this month's Cripping Methodology reading group meeting (21 Feb) on Research ethics & knowledge production where we'll discuss LeFrançois & Voronka's "Mad epistemologies and maddening the ethics of knowledge production" >>>

Internalizing Disability: If I Tell You, Will You See Me? In this research, I take an autoethnographic approach to center my own Mad disabled voice. I reflect on personal challenges and understandings as I was introduced to medical sociology as an undergradu...

You can read Emily’s article, “Internalizing Disability: If I Tell You, Will You See Me?” at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Our 110th meeting takes place 20 Feb, 3pm UK
_ Topic: Research ethics & knowledge production
_ Two readings (this one is short):
Reading 2: Bruno, et al. (2025). Decolonizing autism research: Integrating Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Our 110th meeting is 20 Feb
_ Topic: Research ethics & knowledge production
_ Two readings (second is short):
Reading 1: LeFrançois & Voronka "Mad epistemologies and maddening the ethics of knowledge production," In: Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences

A light blue infographic with the "Society for Disability Studies" logo at the top. At the bottom, a comic of three disabled people with prosthetics and assistive devices who are posing for photos with one another. Reads "Why Join the Society for Disability Studies?"

If you are involved in #DisabilityStudies we hope that you consider becoming a member of the Society for Disability Studies! Becoming a member and paying dues is an awesome way to support disability research and the advancement of Disability Studies in #HigherEd 1/6

Internalizing Disability: If I Tell You, Will You See Me? In this research, I take an autoethnographic approach to center my own Mad disabled voice. I reflect on personal challenges and understandings as I was introduced to medical sociology as an undergradu...

Through an exploration of medical sociology, outdated models of disability, disability studies, and disability theories, Emily King reflects on the personal, educational, research, and pedagogical implications these have had for themself, as a Mad disabled critical disabilities scholar.

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The Society for Disability Studies invites nominations for the 2026 SDS Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to Disability Studies across scholarship, activism, mentorship, & creative practice

Descriptions of all 9 awards: disstudies.org/nominate/
Nominations form: bit.ly/2026SDSAwards

A light blue infographic with the "Society for Disability Studies" logo at the top. At the bottom, a comic of three disabled people with prosthetics and assistive devices who are posing for photos with one another. Reads "Why Join the Society for Disability Studies?"

This December the SDS is launching a membership drive! If you're in the field of #DisabilityStudies and looking for a community of researchers we hope you join us! Membership dues help sustain our flagship journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, which is SO important to the field! 1/6

2/2. _ Text 2: Bruno, Grant, Anne Lindblom, Jessica Tupou, et al. (2025). Decolonizing autism research: Integrating Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. Autism, journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

1/2. 20 Feb 2026 is our 110th meeting with a chat about research ethics & knowledge production
_ Text 1: LeFrançois & Voronka "Mad epistemologies and maddening the ethics of knowledge production," In Macías (Ed), Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences

PS: from Feb onwards we'll read a reasonable amount of text again!

(2/2) Note that the uploaded text of the Nusbaum & Lester had the correct name but the wrong chapter was attached. The correct text is now in the drive!

(Thanks for letting me know!)

(1/2) The 1st meeting of the Cripping Methodology RG (109) is this Fri:
- Minich, Julie Avril. (2016). "Enabling whom? Critical Disability Studies now". csalateral.org/issue/5-1/fo...
_ Nusbaum, Emily A, & Lester, Jessica Nina. (2021). "Bodymind legibility and possibilities for qualitative research"

And if you're interested in Disability / Neurodiversity / Mad Studies and also methodology, have a look at the 2026 Cripping Methodology Reading Group starting Fri 16 Jan
bsky.app/profile/ints...
(not that in 2026 dates and times change a bit)

Show Your Support for Philosophy Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6) With Jonathan Wolff’s retirement earlier this year, came the end of Oxford University’s support for the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series. Henceforth, the prim…

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Help us increase the accessibility of the upcoming sixth edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series by contributing institutional funding/support!

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Reminder: I will launch the results from my research into disabled people's encounters in #BlueBadge parking spaces in an online workshop on Fri 12 Dec, 12-1pm, on Teams with captions
Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6...
#DisabilitySky #DisabilityStudies

The 2026 Cripping Methodology RG starts 16 Jan 2026
_ Note adjusted times & dates throughout the year
_ Find here the schedule:
intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...

The last Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group meeting (nr.108) is on 12 Dec 2025 [2nd Fri]
_ Topic: Trigger warnings and teaching with trauma
_ Reading: Carter, Angela M. (2015). "Teaching with trauma: Trigger warnings, feminism, and disability pedagogy". DSQ dsq-sds.org/index.php/ds...

On 21 Nov 2025, 3pm, we have our 107th meeting. We'll chat about Isabella Novsima's (2023) "Decolonizing ableist pedagogy: A communal work of delinking and crippling". International Review of Mission, 112(2), 267-282

Can anyone send this pub my way? It's Dec reading of the Cripping Methodology RG. Ta!
Barry, Ben, Nesbitt, Philippa, & Strickfaden, Megan. (2024). "Multi-sensory methods: Toward a crip methodology in fashion studies". International Journal of Fashion Studies
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Today's text is one of the BEST texts I've read in the reading group - in all its 106 meetings. It's blowing my mind - in all the good ways!!!!

But first, 3 more Cripping Pedagogy RG meetings (note, Dec moved to the 2nd Fri!).
Next week Fri 17 Oct we chat about Dušana Podlucká's (2020) "Transformative Anti-Ableist Pedagogy for Social Justice". Outlines. Critical Practice Studies core.ac.uk/reader/30490...

ICYMO: the (draft) schedule for the Cripping Methodology RG is up bsky.app/profile/ints...

New Directions for Higher Education Click on the title to browse this journal

2. A special issue on Higher Education & Disability Justice was just published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1536...

Two useful things popped up:
1. The CfP for the Leeds Disability Conf 2026 is up, DL 12 Nov. Reason - it's held 14-16 April this time! disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/conference/c...

OK, the schedule for the 2026 Cripping Methodology Reading Group is up, with a few minor dates & times changes. Now I only have to finalise the reading list for 2026. I almost got all the readings, but keep it open a few more weeks for new suggestions!
intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...

Open access version of Hannah Mason-Bish's (2025) monograph Disability, Gender, Bodies and Boundaries: How Disabled Women Experience Ableist Intrusions link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

For info: because the mailing list now has >500 addresses, will have to send them in two emails, over two days...

🔗 ICYMI: Cripping Methodology RG : intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...