Exploring Autistic Sexualities, Relationality, and Genders (eBook, PDF)

Living Under a Double Rainbow
Redaktion: Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna; Krazinski, Meaghan; Day, Anna

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities and relationality among Autistic people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040131664
• Artikelnr.: 72277170

Autorenporträt

Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist is a sociologist and a Professor in Social Work at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research focuses on research methods and theory development within Neurodiversity Studies. She has published several papers on the theme of gender and sexuality, among Autistic people as well as among non-autistic people. She has edited several books, among them Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm (edited by Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Nick Chown, and Anna Stenning, 2020). Anna Day is a neurodivergent principal clinical psychologist and parent to an Autistic young person. Anna has extensive clinical experience in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) in a community mental health team and specialist psychological therapies service, and now works for The Adult Autism Practice, Dublin, within a neuro-affirmative approach with adults seeking Autism identification. They have a particular interest in gender, sex, and relationship diversity issues and neuroqueering. Anna and colleagues have published the successful Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirming Approach (2021) and are working on The Neurodiversity Affirmative Child Autism Assessment Handbook. Meaghan Krazinski is a neurodivergent PhD candidate in Inclusive Special Education at Syracuse University, United States. Her research interests include neurodiversity; neurodivergent college student experiences; inclusive education; Autistic identity, gender, and relationality; and arts-based research methods. She has published work on Autistic understandings of gender, race, and identity in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and an analysis of Disabled students' experiences with online learning using a queer phenomenological method, as well as a forthcoming co-authored work on neuroqueering, education, and culturally sustaining practices.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Intermission on Consent
Part II: Beginnings
3. Being Young, Autistic, and LGBT+: Connections, Influences, and Identity
Negotiations
4. Shifting Paradigms in Gender-Diverse Autistic Research
5. The Power of Community-Generated Data for an Epistemic Shift in Autistic
Sexuality: From Stigmatised to Neuroaffirming Sex
Part III: Evolving Understandings: Naming the Nameless So It Can Be Thought
6. Autiqueer Experiences of BDSM: Desire, Communication, and Terminology
for BDSM Practices
7. Autistic Identity as a Springboard into Exploring Queerness, Embodiment,
and Relationality
Part IV: Unlearning, Relearning
8. "What We Are Taught to Hide": Kink as a Way to Explore Your Autistic
Self
9. Exploring Autistic Accounts of Sexuality, Intimacy, and Authenticity
10. And I Don't Want You to Show Me: Resistance Writing Autistic
Love-Sexualities through Text Sharing Practices
11. Bearing Witness to Sexuality: Therapy and Education Groups for Autistic
Adults
12. A Critical Look into the Working Alliance Between GSRD Autistic
Individuals and Their Healthcare Providers
Part V: Conclusion
13. Conclusion