Autistic Pride flag design released free to use

Autistic Pride Day is a global event celebrated widely online and offline on or around June 18th every year. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, nearly all offline Autistic Pride events have been cancelled for the foreseeable future.

To look forward to the day we will be able to freely celebrate Autistic Pride without restrictions once more, the Autistic Empire has released a high-resolution, professionally designed, autistic pride flag under the Creative Commons licence permitting any use of this flag, including commercial use, as long as attribution is made to the Autistic Empire.

The infinity symbol represents neurodiversity, the rainbow represents the pride movement. Gold is used by autistic advocates as the chemical symbol for gold is Au (from the Latin aurum). Gold is promoted as an alternative to non-autistic-led groups designating colours such as blue as a symbol for autism.

Feel free to use the autistic pride flag to make flags, banners, badges, print it, redesign it, sell it – it’s yours, forever.

Autistic Pride Flag

 

For more information about licencing and the history of autistic pride, please see our Autistic Pride page.

A PSA from Audible Autism: Your Ideas Wanted!

Hi everyone,

this is a notice from your production team at Audible Autism, the autonomous podcast of the Autistic Empire. We are in the process of wrapping up our third season and started the planning for recording season 4.

We have some ideas and some guests already signed up, but if you have any ideas or topics you would like to be covered on an autistic-led podcast about autistic life, or you are an autistic person who would like to appear on our podcast, please drop us a line at team@audibleautism.com, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Thanks, and a happy new year, stay safe,

The Audible Autism Team

Check out our latest episodes here:

Audible Autism – Episode 26 – Sensory Episode III

For those with a good memory, this was the episode that was meant to come out in the last season. Finally, you get to hear it!

We have 2 stories from Sarah, a short explainer on morality from our past guest Ted Rogers, and as always a collection of relaxing tracks compiled by Odai. Enjoy!

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Episode 25 – Alex of the Retro pals (Part 2)

Audible Autism is back and we return with Part 2 of Odai’s interview with Alex of the Retro Pals where they go deep into the nitty gritty of Alex’s interest in theme parks. How they’re laid out, the differences between Europe and America, Dollywood, and recommendations!

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Audible Autism – Episode 24 – Black History Month 2020

Hello  listeners, as this is October, the team thought it was important to put out an episode in honour of Black History Month.

On this episode you will hear a discussion between Odai, avtivist William Vanderpuye and Alex Mason on the black community and autism, including interacting with the police, difficulties in getting a diagnosis and how so often black autistic people slip through the cracks.

We hope you find this episode interesting and enlightening on a part of the autistic community that is little represented and rarely gets a platform to be heard.

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Audible Autism – Episode 23 – Alex of the Retro pals (Part 1)

Hello listeners we’re back with another exciting episode of Audible Autism, this one is special as it is the first 2 parter episode we’ve had for the podcast.

On this episode Odai goes solo to interview streamer,video editor /ephemera collector Alex one half of streaming duo “The Retro Pals” on this episode you get to hear talk about the differences between living in Texas and California, life as an autistic trans man and also a touching discussion on being in a relationship with a non-autistic partner.

Fun fact: if you listen closely you can hear Odai’s barely contained excitement during the interview

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Audible Autism – Episode 22 – Ditte Rose Andersen

After a long long wait, the start of the new season of Audible Autism is here and on this first episode our hosts Sarah and Odai have an interview with psychologist Ditte Rose Andersen looking into Ditte’s interests and research into the sensory aspects of autism.

Both Sarah and Odai came away feeling like their heads were swimming with loads of new information and perspectives in regards to communication and better understanding in what people with autism want and how they’re not as disinterested as neurotypicals may first assume.

We think this is a great start to the season.

If you would like to be on an episode of Audible Autism, please fill out our form here, and we’d love to chat with you.

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Autistic Empire at the Autistic Pride Online Celebration 2020

Speech by Sarah McCulloch of the Autistic Empire during the London Autistic Pride slot of the Autistic Pride Online Celebration 2020. Many thanks to the organisers of the celebration and of the London slot for giving us the opportunity to speak.

See our BLM statement.

The Zoom background is a cityscape of London by black autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, who is based here. You can check out his work and purchase here: https://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/

Natalie Joelle – Poetry Readings for Autistic Pride 2020

Natalie Joelle is a transdisciplinary researcher, creative practitioner, and activist at Birkbeck, University of London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Fund for Women Graduates. Her critical and creative publications can be found as part of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the Routledge Environmental Humanities Series, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, The Goose and Plumwood Mountain. Further information about her work is available at www.gleaning.info.

Natalie recited the following poems at the Autistic Pride Online Celebration on the 20th June, 2020, and has given permission for them to be shared below. 

 

ASP, or, Autistic Spectrum Pleasures

 

May I love the textures

May I love the patterns

May I love the vibrations

 

May I speak my mind

May I be heard in kind

May I not need to communicate

 

May I have time alone

May I turn off my phone

May I have the key to the quiet room

 

Please

 

May I turn the lights down

May I sit down

May I have this seat

 

May I have more time to eat

May I have something spicy

 

May I be safe to play

May I throw my personal alarm away

 

May I change this world

May I rock your world

May I stim with your head

 

May I interrupt your clock

May I taste your

May I hyperfocus on this specific

 

come AS you are

no sweet aspersions

shall the heavens

let fall

 

melting it down

and Zoming out

diversely or savagely

unmanning the mannerly

with my unruly speech

raising my rip-

raised micro-soft

hand raising it

and putting it down

 

in Piccadilly Circus

to my fiery juggler

they’re guarding

their jugulars

and do I oppress

to liberate this

 

so oppress this I

limiting what I

express sit for a

minute’s selective

muting in the encrypteric

closing down

not coming out

cancelling my noise and

zoning out

 

in Monty Python’s Flying Circus

nt the right room

for as argument

from too many screens

to alexithyme

losing the language

of my dreams

 

oh break my heart

for I cannot hold

my tongue

and my tongue

cannot hold my heart

in this room

 

ah Greta Thunb

this world is not ready

for some of us

yet

 

oh let

aspersions sweet

heaven shall fall

 

 

Audible Autism – Episode 21 – Joseph Redford and Autistic Pride

The Autistic Pride Online Celebration is happening on June 20th and in this episode, we speak with Joseph Redford, the organiser of London Autistic Pride, about why Autistic Pride is important to him. 

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