Finding your place in the fight for Palestinian lives — and remaining there when it gets tough. — Like a lot of people, the genocide currently happening in Gaza has stirred me to take action — but has also frequently left me at a loss as to what I might do. As a white American, I recognize that a portion of my tax dollars go toward supporting the…

Reflecting upon Graeber & Wengrow’s book Dawn of Everything. — David Wengrow and David Graeber’s Dawn of Everything is a dense book. I got it the day it came out in October of 2021, and I’ve been working my way through it ever since. I only just finished. Usually, I could only take the book one single-digit percentage at a…

Autistic Advice#12: Noncompliance is a liberating social skill — but it must be developed. — Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, linked here.

Unpacking body doubling, “executive dysfunction,” and the pathology model of ADHD. — Skye is passionate about the craft of needle felting. With a few overstuffed bags of wool roving, a pack of needles, and her callused hands, she’s constructed everything from hats and vests, to small decorative dolls, to an entire barnyard scene complete with pigs, cows, a feeding trough, tiny felted…

Yet another way that the myth of a singular “female socialization” fails. — For girls of many cultures & class backgrounds, “female socialization” means being expected to be strong, self-sufficient, and resiliently womanly. Before I transitioned, I spent two or three years wearing nothing but dresses. I favored silky sheaths and kicky, brightly patterned skater dresses with open, flouncy skirts. I wore them over bicycle shorts or leggings with low-cut tennis shoes, but they were still quite impractical for any kind of strenuous…

Autistic Advice #11: Research shows most people dislike Autistics within moments of meeting them. Is there any hope of us finding connection? — Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, linked here.

Emerging research suggests they’re one and the same. — Since undergoing top surgery, I’ve become far more attuned to my body. I find it easy and natural to pull my chest upward toward the sky, expanding my upper torso and relieving the pressure on my back. With one heavy sigh I can drop my shoulders toward the floor, releasing…

Autistic Advice #10 — Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, linked here. Today’s question comes…

Thanks Sieran for tackling a fraught topic that always provokes a lot of strong reactions from cis and trans people alike, but which rarely gets the nuanced, compassionate treatment that it deserves. Before I came out, I was at a party with a cis gay acquaintance (let's call him Allan)…