A huge thank you to Ryan from @yiekistore for creating these Autistic Pride pins and sending us some complimentary pins. The autistic pride flag is available for accredited use including commercial use.
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Speaker Bureau: Odai Quaye
Odai Quaye is an English graduate and one of the founding Citizens of the Autistic Empire. He lives in London.
Producer/Co-host of Audible Autism, an autonomous project of the Autistic Empire, showcasing autistic lives and autistic issues, with over 40 episodes released.
Speaker in regards to the intersections of race, class and disability.
Available to give talks/seminars in person (London or reasonable travel costs imbursed) or online.
Presentations:
- Cast Down Your Bucket: Black, Autistic and Unemployed
This presentation can between 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on the depth requested.
A version of this talk delivered at the Haringey Autism Hub in December 2023 can be viewed on the Autistic Empire YouTube channel.
Contact the Speakers Bureau to book Odai at office at autisticempire.com.
Audible Autism Episode 34 – Black History Month episode – Hubert Harrison: founder of Harlem Radicalism
Audible Autism is back with a very special episode for Black History Month. Odai decided to go solo and dedicate an entire episode to a figure from the past who he felt deserved more recognition, St Croix's own Hubert Henry Harrison.
This episode was both a passion project but also a way of introducing a figure who alot of people might not know of which is interesting especially considering his connection to Marcus Garvey and we hope that you find this insightful and exciting.
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Cast down your bucket: Black, British and Unemployed
A lecture by Odai Quaye of the Autistic Empire for Black History Month on his lived experience as a black autistic person seeking employment. With gratitude to the Autism Hub in Haringey for giving us the space.
We livestreamed this on Youtube and you can watch the video here: https://youtube.com/live/Nd3RTcyCaWY
Who is an Autist? A Talk on Diagnosis at Limmud 2023
Audible Autism – Episode 33 – Autistic Parenting
This episode of Audible Autism is a special one in that it was one Odai and former Co-host Sarah were proud of….but there were alot of tech issues in terms of audio quality and recording formats aswell.
Guests Nikki (who has 3 children) and Sam (who at the time was still pregnant) were invited on to have a stimulating and perceptive conversation on being an Autistic parent and all that entails as far as pregnancy, raising children and everything else.
We here at Audible Autism would like to say a big thank you to our editor Simon for being able to get this episode together for our listeners and a thank you and very belated sorry to our guests for how long it's taken for this episode to finally arrive.
We hope you all enjoy this episode
This podcast was edited by Simon Marcus of Addictive Media. For more information about Simon’s video and audio services please visit http://addictive.media/
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Autistic Pride 2023
An Update since Autistic Pride 2021
In 2021, Autistic Empire founder Sarah McCulloch spoke at Autistic Pride Online on the journey of developing autistic identity.
In that talk, she analysed the unfolding controversy about the film Music, released by Sia that year. A short extract:
“[w]e have substantial numbers of autistic people who deny that they are autistic but have an affinity for autistic people, so they get involved in the autistic community and autistic advocacy from the perspective of supporting autistic people, when really, they’re just promoting internalised neurotypical ideas about who we are and what we do, which is damaging to them as well as us.
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So that was the majority narrative of the film. But what I would like to suggest is what if we shifted our perspective and saw Sia as an autistic person who felt some kind of kinship with the identified autistic people in her life, and made a film about being autistic, that reflected all of the contradictory, medicalised, and pathological framing and language that professionals use about us and *autistic people often use about themselves*, and then had a meltdown when publicly criticised for it? How would we have treated her differently then?”
Sia recently went on a podcast to says she has known she was autistic since 2021, so good to know that Sarah wasn’t the only autistic person to have noticed.
Welcome to your tribe, Sia.
You can watch the full 23 minute talk on the Autistic Empire YouTube Channel here:
Speaking at Kings College London
Many thanks to Kings College London for the invitation to speak at the recent Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Teaching Day on supporting autistic students.
Our director Sarah McCulloch shared a panel with Senior Lecturer Catherine Smale and autistic writer and academic Jodie Hare.
Good to see autistics talking about autism as always!
Невроразнообразие (Neurodiversity) (Bulgarian and English)
One of our Bulgarian citizens would like to draw your attention to their new Neurodiversity Forum, Невроразнообразие (Neurodiversity)!
Neurodiversity is an informational media channel on neurodiversity, facilitated by neurodiverse people. It is based in trauma-informed practice and positive models of empowerment. The channel has organized workshops, meet-ups, and an online mutual-aid channel, which aim to spread awareness about the neurodiverse community in Bulgaria and to lessen stigma against the community.
Please note the Page posts in Bulgarian and the Group posts in Bulgarian and English. Event talks are translated into both Bulgarian and English on request.
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