My April Blogging

Another month of diversity, equity, and inclusion blogging from my lanes of neurodiversity, disability, and toxic Christianity, with some music in the mix:

• The Self-injurious Stims that I Love
• New Atheism: Stealing the Credibility of Science to Rationalize Prior Bigotries
• “Autistic people have significant barriers to accessing safety.”
• Lost In Translation: Ways in Which Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Social Languages Differ
• Rina Sawayama and Dua Lipa: Anthemic, Buoyant Joy at the Tiny Desk
• Autism Acceptance Month Is Nerve-racking and Traumatizing
• Interrogating Normal: Autism Social Skills Training at the Margins of a Social Fiction
• DEI at Work: The Familiar Life Cycle
• The Intensive Pattern Dance of Meatspace Relationships: Patterns, Sensory Overwhelm, and Solo Polyamory
• I Cannot, and Will Not, Believe in That God: Libraries as Candles in the Dark
• Unchosen Family
• Gender Copia and Bricolage
• Autigender and Neuroqueer: Two Words on the Relationship Between Autism and Gender That Fit Me
• Republicans: A Relentless Source of Minority Stress
• Accommodations: Individualized Responses to Structural Design Problems
• A Credo for Support: Respecting Autonomy in a Society of Interdependence and Care
• The Meaninglessness of “Evidence-based”
• Behaviorism: Measuring the Surface, Badly
• “Care is an organizational structure needed to keep our nation running.” “Care work makes all other work possible.”
• Cradle-to-Grave Eugenics: Selective Abortion, Assisted Suicide, and Structural Ableism
• Jubilation of the Nones
• Purity Culture, the False Gender Binary, and Abuse at Heritage Christian School
• Google, Autism Speaks, and NAUWU
• “Those Burning Crosses Are Symbols of Evangelicalism”
• There Should Be Social and Economic Costs for Bigotry
• A Sound That Turns the Mountains Into Sand
• My March Blogging
• Interdependence and Representation in Appare-Ranman!
  

In the works for coming months:

• Taking Control of the Mask: Unmasking as a Spoiled Identity
• The Autism Industry and Race Science: Stealing the Credibility of Science to Rationalize and Exploit Prior Bigotries
• Many thrive on frugal fare, Who would perish of excess: Intense World, Perceptual Capacity, and Solo Polyamory in Promises Like Pie-Crust
• The Complex Sensory Experiences of Our Neurodivergent Family and the Interconnected Modalities of Stimminess and Sensory Hell
• This Chronic Bodymind: Separate, Isolate, Bolster, and Squeeze with Pregnancy Pillows and Body Pillows
• This Chronic Bodymind: Articulate All the Things
• Platform Capitalism and Predatory Inclusion
• Accommodations and Emotional Bids in Neurodiverse Relationships
• My Two Blogs: Managing Publication Anxiety With Digital Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes
• Constantly Ruminating Engine of Regret: Social Anxiety, Rejection Sensitivity, and Flashbacks
• Samefooding the Apocalypse
• Crip Wisdom in the Age of Coronavirus