Audible Autism Episode 35 – Autism and specialist accommodation

Back once again with a brand you episode of Autism and this time Odai and Luke have a discussion with guest Joe Booth in which the 3 of them have a startling and enlightening discussion into living in Specialist accommodation.

Joe was very forward in terms of his experiences, who he is and also some of the failings and pitfalls in regards to carers, set up of residents and the focus on cost over care that some might find alarming.

We hope that you all find this an urgent and enriching episode and we would like to thank Joe for giving some of his time for this recording.

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Speaker Bureau

If you would like to have an autistic speaker at your assembly, event or organisation, we have several Citizens who are available. Their profiles, interests and fee range where applicable are below.

Please email office at autisticempire.com to make your speaker request and be put in touch with your preferred speaker directly.

All speakers are Citizens of the Autistic Empire and are expected to uphold our principles, values and code of conduct.

Other than this, the Autistic Empire does not endorse or restrict what any of our speakers may say at your event and this is a matter for you to negotiate directly with them.

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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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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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.
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You can watch the full 23 minute talk on the Autistic Empire YouTube Channel here: